Rui Gomes

The Disentanglement of the Body-Consciousness-World Intertwining: A Phenomenology of Severe Mental Illness.

Nursing inquiry July 1, 2026 Rui Gomes, Patrícia Silva-Pereira

Severe mental illness is frequently approached through nosological criteria focused on symptom severity, neglecting the complexity of lived experience. Phenomenology understands psychopathology not as an isolated biological dysfunction, but as a radical alteration in the structure of being-in-the-world. Grounded in Merleau-Ponty's ontology and Max van Manen's phenomenology of practice, this...