Existential Medicine

Contents

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Introduction Existential Medicine: Heidegger and the Lessons from Zollikon

Part I New Currents in Existential Psychiatry

1 The Cure for Existential Inauthenticity

2 Emotional Disturbance, Trauma, and Authenticity: A Phenomenological-Contextualist Psychoanalytic Perspective

3 Beyond the Ontological Difference: Heidegger, Binswanger, and the Future of Existential Analysis

4 From Anxiety to Nostalgia: A Heideggerian Analysis

Part II Phenomenologies of Anxiety, Pain, and Death

5 The World of Chronic Pain: A Dialog

6 On the Autós of Autonomous Decision Making: Intercorporeality, Temporality, and Enacted Normativities in Transplantation Medicine

7 Reclaiming Embodiment in Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms (MUPS)

8 Heidegger, Curing Aging, and the Desirability of Immortality

Part III Ethics, Medicalization, and Technology

9 Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology and the Perils of Medicalization

10 Breathlessness: From Bodily Symptom to Existential Experience

11 Heideggerian Ethics and the Permissibility of Bio- and Nano-Medicine

Part IV Existential Health

12 Losing the Measure of Health: Phenomenological Reflections on the Role of Techne in Health Care Today

13 Existential Medicine and the Intersubjective Body

14 Health Like a Broken Hammer or the Strange Wish to Make Health Disappear

15 What is it to “Age Well”? Re-visioning Later Life

References

Index

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