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This essay arises out of reflections on Maurice Natanson’s rich article, “Philosophy and Psychiatry.”1 To some extent I have tried simply to interpret Natanson, but I have also taken the liberty of adding to and diverging from what he has written. Natanson’s work, in its multifaceted implications, actually invites such liberty on the reader’s part. But the reader, in taking this liberty, thereby incurs a duty always to respect the work. Hence if I have made claims that Natanson has not, it is only in an attempt to think through his claims. I have here purposefully chosen the phrase “thinking through his claims.” It is like a person with seriously defective eyesight being given the opportunity to see through the proper spectacles; if one does it, one’s vision is much enhanced, truer and more detailed.
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Maurice Natanson, “Philosophy and Psychiatry,” in Phenomenology, Role, and Reason: Essays on the Coherence and Deformation of Social Reality (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1974), 232–264. Subsequent references to this essay will be incorporated into the text.
Erwin W. Straus, “Aesthesiology and Hallucinations,” in Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology, ed. Rollo May, Ernest Angel, and Henri F. Ellenberger (New York: Basic Books, 1958), 166–67.
Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, Vol. I, trans. J. N. Findlay (New York: Humanities Press, 1970), 263–266.
O. P. Wiggins, M. A. Schwartz, and M. Spitzer, “Phenomenological/Descriptive Psychiatry: The Methods of Edmund Husserl and Karl Jaspers,” in Phenomenology, Language, and Schizophrenia, ed. Manfred Spitzer, Friedrich Uehlein, Michael A. Schwartz, and Christoph Mundt (New York: Springer Verlag, 1992), 46–69.
M. A. Schwartz, and M. Spitzer, “Phenomenological/Descriptive Psychiatry: The Methods of Edmund Husserl and Karl Jaspers,” in Phenomenology, Language, and Schizophrenia, ed. Manfred Spitzer, Friedrich Uehlein, Michael A. Schwartz, and Christoph Mundt (New York: Springer Verlag, 1992), 46–69 Ibid.
Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology, trans. J. Hoenig and Marian W. Hamilton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963).
Ibid., 55–57.
Ibid., 55.
Ibid.
Alfred Schutz, Collected Papers I: The Problem of Social Reality, ed. Maurice Natanson (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962), 229.
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Wiggins, O.P. (1995). Natanson on Phenomenology in Psychiatry. In: Crowell, S.G. (eds) The Prism of the Self. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8408-1_3
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