Michael Konrad

Paving the way for systemic phenomenological psychiatry - the forgotten heritage of Wolfgang Blankenburg.

Frontiers in Psychiatry 2022 Samuel Thoma, Michael Konrad, Lisa C. Fellin et al.

Phenomenological psychopathology focuses on the first-person experience of mental disorders. Although it is in principle descriptive, it also entails an explanatory dimension: single psychological symptoms are conceived as genetically arising from a holistic structure of personal experience, i.e., the patient's being-in-the-world - and of its dynamic unfolding over time. Yet both classical and...