Prolegomena Einer Medizinischen Anthropologie

Gebsattel, V. E. Freiherr Von

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“…Finally, the guilt feelings may also be derived from the melancholic disturbance of Zeitigung or lived time which has been described, mainly by Straus [5] and von Gebsattel [6], as an 'inhibition of vital becoming'. Following Straus, in melancholia the 'immanent' or 'ego-time' of the Fuchs movement of life gets stuck, whereas the 'transient' or 'world-time' goes on and passes by.…”

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Melancholia as a Desynchronization: Towards a Psychopathology of Interpersonal Time

Fuchs

2001

Psychopathology

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Starting from psychopathological analyses of lived time in melancholia, the paper first examines the continuous processes of synchronization effective in biological as well as social life. These processes enable the individual to compensate for states of shortage, to adapt to changed circumstances, finish with past events and reconnect with the present. Examples of such resynchronizing processes are regeneration, sleep, dreaming, forgetting, remorse or grief. Melancholia is then interpreted as the result of a desynchronization, i.e. an uncoupling in the temporal relation of organism and environment, or of individual and society. With the processes of resynchronization failing, the person falls out of common environmental time. This conception allows a parallel to be drawn between chronobiological and psychosocial results of research. Moreover, it offers the possibility to understand not only the psychopathology, but also the triggering of melancholic episodes on the basis of a disturbance of time. Consequences for a ‘resynchronizing therapy’ are outlined.

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Melancholia as a Desynchronization: Towards a Psychopathology of Interpersonal Time

Fuchs

2001

Psychopathology

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“…Westphal's view of the affective isolation of the obsessive images suggests once more that he clearly wanted to keep apart from v. KrafftEbing's view. By contrast, subsequent authors such as Friedmann [11] , Kraepelin [18] in his later publications, Störring [19] , and v. Gebsattel [20,21] point to an affective basis of obsession, but do not question the refl exive character of the obsessive images.…”

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Obsession in the Strict Sense: A Helpful Psychopathological Phenomenon in the Differential Diagnosis between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia

Bürgy

2007

Psychopathology

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The paper presented follows the hypothesis that differentiation between obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia is possible only by focusing on the single phenomenon of obsession. The statement of a nosological specificity of obsession, called obsession in the strict sense, is set against the current views of ICD-10 and DSM-IV of obsession as a ubiquitous, non-specific phenomenon appearing in comorbidities. In the succession of the paper, the historical development of these two very different views and their clinically mixing is reconstructed. The phenomenological clarification of the structure of the obsessive phenomena leads to the term of obsession in the strict sense. The distinction between obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia can take place at the psychopathological interface between obsession in the strict sense and delusional idea. The examination of the literature on the connection between obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia shows that there is no definitive connection between obsession in the strict sense and schizophrenia. Finally, some case reports are presented to sharpen clinical suspicion for other possibly wrong diagnoses.

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“…Several decades later, the German psychiatrist and philosopher Von Gebsattel [21] took a more phenomenological approach to the disorder, which means that he tried to understand the disorder by investigating the way in which the patient relates to the world, to people, and to herself. Von Gebsattel characterizes the relation between obsessive and compulsive patients to their world as one of 'fearful disgust' (phobischer Ekel).…”

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On the Nature of Obsessions and Compulsions

Slatman

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Denys

2013

Modern Trends in Psychiatry

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Abstract:In this chapter we give an overview of current and historical conceptions of the nature of obsessions and compulsions. We discuss some open questions pertaining to the primacy of the affective, volitional or affective nature of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Furthermore, we add some phenomenological suggestions of our own. In particular, we point to the patients' need for absolute certainty and the lack of trust underlying this need. Building on insights from Wittgenstein, we argue that the kind of certainty the patients strive for is unattainable in principle via the acquisition of factual knowledge. Moreover, we suggest that the patients' attempts to attain certainty are counter-productive as their excessive conscious control in fact undermines the trust they need. 2

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Prolegomena Einer Medizinischen Anthropologie

Cited by 159 publications

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Melancholia as a Desynchronization: Towards a Psychopathology of Interpersonal Time

Melancholia as a Desynchronization: Towards a Psychopathology of Interpersonal Time

Obsession in the Strict Sense: A Helpful Psychopathological Phenomenon in the Differential Diagnosis between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia

On the Nature of Obsessions and Compulsions

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