This article investigates the conditions of possibility for the Praecox-Gefühl (PF), the feeling of atmospheric strangeness experienced in the encounter with the schizophrenic patient, as described by Rümke. It aims to offer a phenomenological description of this experience of empathic incomprehensibility, taking as its basis the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, especially his work...
The general aim of this contribution is to discuss a dilemma which lies in the conception and exercise of psychiatry. This dilemma lies in the recognition that, on one hand the reified model for describing and understanding mental health is not sufficient for overcoming a Kraepelinian paradigm still influent in psychiatry; on the other hand, that despite this recognition we are still stuck with...