Old Problems and New Perspectives for Neurophenomenology in Psychiatry: The Chronicle of the Radical Turn
RUDN Journal of Philosophy December 15, 2024 Olga A. Vlasova
Psychiatric neurophenomenology, largely neglected in Russian scholarship, bridges early 20th-century philosophical psychiatry with modern neuroscience. The paper traces how key ideas from Karl Jaspers (description and understanding), Erwin Strauss (prelogical experience), Ludwig Binswanger (immediate experience beyond subject-object split), and R.D. Laing (embodiment and communication) reappear in contemporary work by J. Parnas, G. Stanghellini, L. Sass, D. Zahavi, K. Mundt, and T. Fuchs. By focusing on lived experience rather than the biological-psychological dichotomy, neurophenomenology creates a shared research field that resolves the antinomies historically dividing philosophy of psychiatry, opening new perspectives for interdisciplinary practice.