Clinical Phenomenology and Cognitive Psychology

by Fewtrell, David; O'Connor, Kieron

• ISBN13: 9780415069465
• ISBN10: 0415069467
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The authors illustrate how feeling states are a crucial component of mental health problems and, if adequately differentiated, can result in a greater understanding of mental health.

Author Biography

David Fewtrell is Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the BHB Community Health Care Trust, London and Specialist Lecturer at the University of East London, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
A philosophy of self-body and self-world relations	p. 1
The relationship between feeling and thought	p. 25
The problem of defining the moods and emotions	p. 41
Panic disorder as a clinical entity	p. 57
Psychogenic dizziness and other self-world disturbances	p. 74
Dysfunctional self-awareness - depersonalisation phenomena	p. 88
The psychopathology of craving	p. 107
Capgras syndrome and delusions of misidentification	p. 126
Positive experience and states of enlightenment	p. 141
Some common ground between phenomenological and cognitive psychology	p. 158
References	p. 182
Name index	p. 204
Subject index	p. 209
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