Emotions and personhood : exploring fragility, making sense of vulnerability /

How does a person experience emotions? What is the relationship between the experiential and biological dimensions of emotions? How do emotions figure in a person's relation to the world and to other people? How do emotions feature in human vulnerability to mental illness? Do they play a signif...

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Main Author: Stanghellini, Giovanni
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Rosfort, René
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:How does a person experience emotions? What is the relationship between the experiential and biological dimensions of emotions? How do emotions figure in a person's relation to the world and to other people? How do emotions feature in human vulnerability to mental illness? Do they play a significant role in the fragile balance between mental health and illness? If emotions are in fact significant, how are they relevant for treatment?Emotions and personhood are important notions within the field of mental health care. What they are, and how they are related though, is less evident.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (762 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-332) and index.
ISBN:9780191636226
0191636223