Lost in Dialogue: Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care

by Giovanni Stanghellini

To be human means to be in dialogue. Dialogue is a unitary concept used by the author to address, in a coherent way, three essential issues for clinical practice: 'What is a human being?', 'What is mental pathology'?, and 'What is care?'.

In this book Stanghellini argues that to be human means to be in dialogue with alterity, that mental pathology is the outcome of a crisis of one's dialogue with alterity, and that care is a method wherein...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198792069
• ISBN13: 9780198792062
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"