Lost in Dialogue

Lost in Dialogue: Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care, 1st Edition, examines psychiatric theory and clinical practice through the unifying framework of dialogue. The volume addresses three fundamental questions: the nature of a human being, the definition of mental pathology, and the meaning of care.

The book defines being human as engaging in dialogue with alterity, presenting mental pathology as an interruption of that dialogue. In this framework, care serves as a structured method to re-enact severed communication within oneself and in relation to the external world.

Drawing heavily on phenomenological and psychodynamic traditions, the text provides conceptual tools to help integrate psychotherapeutic and phenomenological perspectives into scientific investigation.