Title: Seeking the Underlying Sense
Subtitle: Psychiatry, Narrative, Systems Thinking and Computational Semantics
Subject Classification:  Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Medical Ethics  
BIC Classification: MMH, UYA
BISAC Classification: MED078000, PSY036000, COM004000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: May 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-171-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-172-3

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Description

This book explores how meaning emerges within human experiences that are often regarded as irrational, fragmented, or incomprehensible. Drawing on psychiatry, narrative theory, systems thinking, recovery-oriented practice, and computational semantics, it proposes a framework for identifying underlying patterns of meaning in clinical, social, and institutional contexts. Through detailed analyses of clinical interviews, the author demonstrates how seemingly incomprehensible discourse can reveal coherent underlying structures. 'Seeking the Underlying Sense' is essential reading for psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals, as well as for scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and artificial intelligence who are interested in the future of human-machine collaboration and the enduring complexities of the human mind.

Biography

Author(s):  Lorenzo Burti is a distinguished psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and former Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Verona. A leading figure in European mental health, he is the founder and Honorary President of the Italian Society for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (SIRP), reflecting his lifelong commitment to recovery-oriented and community-based care. With a prolific career spanning over four decades, he has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers and 11 books. His extensive clinical and academic experience uniquely positions him to bridge the worlds of phenomenological psychiatry, systems thinking, and computational analysis in this seminal work.

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