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Table of contents (9 chapters)

Front Matter

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Introduction: The Blind-spot in Medicine
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 1-12
A History of Medical Care
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 13-23
Reality and Medicine
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 25-37
Existence and Health
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 39-52
Medicalization
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 53-62
Existential Health Psychology
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 63-73
Adequately Human: Methods for Health Science
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 75-88
Post-Concussion Syndrome: An Exemplar
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 89-97
Conclusion: Caring for the Human Being—An Outline for Applied Existential Health Psychology
- Patrick M. Whitehead
Pages 99-109
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This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine. Drawing on the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology and existential analysis in the work of Martin Heidegger, Kurt Goldstein, Medard Boss, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the author seeks to expose this lacuna and explore the ways in which it misrepresents (or misunderstands) the human condition. Whitehead begins by examining the core distinction in the sociology of medicine between “disease” and “illness” and how this distinction maps onto a more fundamental distinction between the corporeal/objective body and the experiential/lived body. Ultimately, the book exposes the tendency in modern medicine to medicalize the human condition and forwards a reorientation framed by what the author terms “existential health psychology.”

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Sociology and Psychology, Albany State University, Albany, USA

Patrick M. Whitehead

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Patrick M. Whitehead, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Albany State University, USA

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Book Title: Existential Health Psychology
Book Subtitle: The Blind-spot in Healthcare
Authors: Patrick M. Whitehead
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21355-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21354-1Published: 04 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21355-8Published: 24 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 117
Topics: Existential approach, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Health Administration, Humanism, Psychiatry

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