Some Idle and Random Thoughts on Phenomenology and Mental Health
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https://doi.org/10.65828/bdgrc507Abstract
Beliefs are necessary for living, but some are necessarily incongruous with others. Realisation of this might help us to be more understanding and sympathetic to those powerfully driven "To Know" what is more idiosyncratic, individualistic and mistaken. Existentialisms which emphasize existence rather than essences can encompass the issues, while much called Phenomenology is a symptom rather than a logical solution of the paradoxes involved. Intuition, and imagination are the basis of human creativity, but for different purposes they require social, pragmatic, psychological, and empirical confirmation. Confident assertion are only sometimes convincing, but repetition by enough of a society helps an ideology.
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F. A. Jenner is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Sheffield, and Professor Visitante, Concepción, Chile. He was director of the M.R.C. Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry and a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines.
M.C.Chung is a lecturer in Psychology at Wolverhampton University. His interests include the philosophy of psychology, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorders.
