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The Role of Phenomenology in Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. Kräupl Taylor*
Affiliation:
The Bethlem Royal and The Maudsley Hospital, London

Extract

The term “phenomenology” was imported into psychiatry from the field of philosophy. I intend to give a brief and necessarily simplified account of its philosophical background, the various meanings applied to it, and some of the clinical implications following from it.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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