4 papers in the library · publishing 2026
March 16, 2026 Claudio Maddaloni
This chapter presents a radically renewed vision of psychiatry and psychology, based on the inclusion of the spiritual, energetic, and transformative dimensions of the human being. The author criticizes the technical-materialist drift of modern neuroscience, emphasizing how Western culture has relegated mystical and spiritual experience to exceptional or pathological phenomena, depriving the...
March 16, 2026 Claudio Maddaloni
This chapter explores the nature and implications of psychiatric crisis from a critical and innovative perspective, moving beyond the tradition of mainstream psychiatry. The author begins with the clinical observation of the patient in crisis, emphasizing how the severity of the episode is often disproportionate to external events. Psychiatric crisis is portrayed as a radical rupture of...
March 16, 2026 Claudio Maddaloni
This chapter discusses different therapeutic approaches to mental distress, showing how the chosen method reflects underlying conceptions of mental disorder. Psychiatric treatment, based on medical training, focuses mainly on the biological aspects of illness. Diagnosis often follows classification systems such as the DSM-5, and intervention typically relies on anti-symptomatic medication....
March 16, 2026 Claudio Maddaloni
This section examines the relationship between spirituality and psychiatry, focusing on the distinction between spiritual emergencies (SE) and psychotic crises (PC). Mainstream psychiatry often interprets mystical or non-ordinary states of consciousness as symptoms of mental illness, attributing them to brain chemistry alterations and aiming to restore the patient to a previous “normal” state....