Phenomenology of Depression: the lived-body and the silence of salience
Institution: | University of Otago |
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Year: | 0 |
Keywords: | phenomenology; depression; psychiatry; embodiment; DSM-5; existential-phenomenology; salience; motor-intentionality |
Record ID: | 1301515 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5605 |
The aim of my research is not to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions that indicate presence of depression. Rather the aim is to examine how the DSM-5 criteria constrain our understanding of depression, whether the criteria capture anything meaningful about the syndrome, and how depression can more accurately be characterized from within an existential-phenomenological framework that relies on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's metaphysics of embodiment.