Understanding / Psychosis
Psychosis - Phenomenology, Psychopathology and Pathophysiology February 2, 2022 Kenjiro Fukao
“Understanding” in Jaspers’ sense is the essential concept for defining psychosis, although its relationship is paradoxical, that is, psychosis is defined by un-understandability or inability to understand. Un-understandability means the inability of empathizing with the patient’s mind and implies the existence of a pathological process in the patient’s brain. The pivotal concept which makes...