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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Psychosis Is Not Illness but a Survival Strategy in Severe Stress: A Proposal for an Addition to a Phenomenological Point of View
Jaakko Seikkulasubject
PsychosisDialogical selfmedicine.disease030227 psychiatryExtreme stressArousalPhenomenology (philosophy)03 medical and health sciencesPsychiatry and Mental healthClinical Psychology0302 clinical medicinePsychotic DisordersEmbodied cognitionSurvival strategySocial relationshipmedicineHumansPsychologyStress Psychological030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychologydescription
Phenomenology often looks at psychosis as a defined pathological state. In this paper, psychosis is not seen as a (pathological) state but as a way to respond in extreme stress. It is psychological functioning of the embodied and relational mind, and psychotic experience can be seen as one form of affective arousal among any other affects. Taken the point of views of Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin about the primacy of living in responsive relationships, psychotic behavior is seen as emerging in relationships that do not guarantee adequate responses and thus the subject is imposed to isolate from social relationships and developing odd behavior. If dialogical responses are guaranteed, recovery from psychotic behavior can occur. Some guidelines for such dialogues are given.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-29 | Psychopathology |