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The situation of present day psychiatry is described as being dominated by an empiricist perspective. The limitations of this perspective are analyzed and a rough sketch of the hermeneutical approach in psychiatry is offered. It is argued that a fully developed hermeneutical psychiatry implies a reference towards anthropological themes. Three of them, time, historicity and corporality, are investigated.
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Mooij, A. Towards an anthropological psychiatry. Theoretical Medicine 16, 73–91 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00993788
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