Phenomenology in Psychiatry as an Ethical Obligation
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice July 19, 2026 Beatriz de Faria Sousa
RATIONALE: Contemporary psychiatry increasingly recognises the importance of person-centred, recovery-oriented, and biopsychosocial approaches to care. Yet these frameworks do not fully resolve the methodological question of how clinicians should investigate patients' lived experience in ways that inform ethical psychiatric practice. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This paper argues that phenomenology...