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A Manifesto for Mental HealthA Phenomenological Approach

A Manifesto for Mental Health: A Phenomenological Approach [Rather than employ medical, pathologising, language and methods, we can and should use effective, scientific and understandable alternatives. Both of the major diagnostic systems contain the kernels of alternative systems for identifying and describing psychological phenomena and distress, and an improvement upon diagnosis would be simply to list a person’s experiences as described by that person. Such a straightforward phenomenological approach—the operational definition of our experiences—would enable our problems to be recognised (in both senses of the word), understood, validated, explained (and explicable) and initiate a plan for help. This would meet the universal call for appropriate, internationally recognised, data collection and shared language use and avoid the inadequacies of reliability and validity associated with traditional diagnoses. Such phenomenological codes offer a constructive, radical way forwards.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Manifesto for Mental HealthA Phenomenological Approach

Kinderman, Peter
Springer Journals — Sep 23, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
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978-3-030-24385-2
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155 –170
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10.1007/978-3-030-24386-9_7
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Abstract

[Rather than employ medical, pathologising, language and methods, we can and should use effective, scientific and understandable alternatives. Both of the major diagnostic systems contain the kernels of alternative systems for identifying and describing psychological phenomena and distress, and an improvement upon diagnosis would be simply to list a person’s experiences as described by that person. Such a straightforward phenomenological approach—the operational definition of our experiences—would enable our problems to be recognised (in both senses of the word), understood, validated, explained (and explicable) and initiate a plan for help. This would meet the universal call for appropriate, internationally recognised, data collection and shared language use and avoid the inadequacies of reliability and validity associated with traditional diagnoses. Such phenomenological codes offer a constructive, radical way forwards.]

Published: Sep 23, 2019

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