Book contents
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Need for a Model
- 2 Currently Available Models in Psychiatry
- 3 Introduction to Enactivism
- 4 Body and Mind – and World
- 5 The Existential Dimension and Its Role in Psychiatry
- 6 Enriched Enactivism
- 7 Enactive Psychiatry
- 8 An Enactive Approach to Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
- References
- Index
6 - Enriched Enactivism
Existential Sense-Making, Values, and Sociocultural Worlds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2020
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Need for a Model
- 2 Currently Available Models in Psychiatry
- 3 Introduction to Enactivism
- 4 Body and Mind – and World
- 5 The Existential Dimension and Its Role in Psychiatry
- 6 Enriched Enactivism
- 7 Enactive Psychiatry
- 8 An Enactive Approach to Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
- References
- Index
Summary
How does this existential dimension and the space of meaning it opens up fit within the enactive picture? The same feature that made the enactive perspective on the body-mind problem so helpful is now the main source of worry: the life–mind continuity thesis. For if we stress the continuity between living and sense-making, we risk equalising or smoothing out fundamental differences between living beings and their sense-making capacities.
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- Enactive Psychiatry , pp. 145 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020