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Medard Boss and the Dasein philosophy

Medard Boss was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who developed a form of psychotherapy based on the Dasein philosophy, this type of analysis linked the psychotherapeutic practice of psychoanalysis to the phenomenological existential philosophy of his friend and mentor Martin Heidegger. The term Dasein, mainly used in philosophy, comes from German and means “to be

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The philosophy of mental disorders

The philosophy of mental disorders is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines visions and methods of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience and ethics to analyze mental illness. Philosophers of mental disorders are interested in examining ontological, epistemological and normative problems, all of which start from different conceptions of mental illness. adequate specification and free of subjective

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The philosophy of doubt: a brief historical summary

Little has been written about the philosophy of doubt. The history of thought and doubt is contemporary. When man began to systematically reason about himself and his reality, the first fundamental doubts arose. The great epic texts point out that dilemmas, questions, risks and insecurities have faced, for many centuries, a purely heroic approach; the

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