Title: Psychiatry and Culture
Subtitle: Selected Articles and Essays
Subject Classification:  Philosophy, Psychology, Literature and Literary Criticism  
BIC Classification: HP, DS, JM
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Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Sep 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-009-2
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-010-8

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Description

This is a collection of essays written by the author since the Millennium, observing the intersections between psychiatry, philosophy and literature. The collection touches on a range of subjects, united by the phenomenological-hermeneutical method.

The book is very influenced by German culture, and includes studies on Goethe, Rilke, Kierkegaard, and Jaspers. It also examines topics including the significance of the labyrinth in art and psychiatry; the essential relationship of eating disorders and some elements of postmodernity; anxiety as fundamental experience of human existence; the importance of Socrates' maieutics in the development of both ethical psychotherapy and a good doctor-patient relationship in general; and an attempt to achieve a differential phenomenology between the encounter with God in the mythologies and in madness. An original and unusual research aspect shows the influence of two German poets, Rainer Maria Rilke and Stefan George, in the development of the resistance movement against Hitler’s tyranny among high-ranking officials of the German armed forces. The book concludes with two essays aspiring to show some essential contributions of two great German psychiatrists and philosophers, Karl Jaspers and Hubertus Tellenbach. These essays also include some interesting and lesser-known features of their respective biographies.

It will be a useful addition to collections in psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, history and literature.

Biography

Author(s):  Prof. Dr. med. Otto Dörr Zegers is Full Professor (emeritus) of Psychiatry at the University of Chile, and Director of the Center for Studies on Phenomenology and Psychiatry at Diego Portales University in Santiago. He has published 190 journal articles, 60 book chapters, and 6 books. He is a Visiting Professor at several international universities, particularly Madrid, Heidelberg and Paris.

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