Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:45:14 +0100 From: jim <jmd-AT-dasein.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Heidegger and Psychiatry To Rick Novar: The situation is not as dark as you forecast, I think. Recently, in the literature, there have been some very critical articles of the entire DSM-based diagnoses. Also, I think that Szasz's views, via the later views of Foucault and Heidegger, are slowly having an influence on the psychiatric community in the States (it seems that DSM is not as central in European countries or in England). In fact, a couple of years ago, a wonderful anthology was published on Psychiatry and Phenomenology (I don't have my books with me, so I don't remember). Also, if you read German, there is a translation available of a work by Dr. Kimura Bin -- he's a good man, out of Kyoto University, and whle in Germany had some chances to talk to Heidegger, and formulate a new concept of 'subject' which is crafted from the work of Weizsacker (unfortunately, involved in bio- experiments for the Nazis), Heidegger, and Maturana. The book is worth reading. jim --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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