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Without pretensions to the theory of everything and to the supreme algorithm, this book presents a sensible rational and a healthy effort to integrate current knowledge and to open the horizons of research in the territory-process of mental health and mental illness, its origin and its destiny, mode of understanding and art-science in response to their impasses and challenges. By proposing a Triangle Intervention, the self-regulated and autopoietic dynamic system of the human relationship is conceived and managed by reason of the imbricated sequential development and with frequent and fertile loops in the course of biogenic, sociogenic, and idiogenic factors-vectors, giving special emphasis to the latter because they are dependent on the neural networks of representation and generation - memory and imagination, nostalgy and hope, history and creativity - of the subject and agent of action. As if Man was not the first constructor of the Universe of Culture; and the investigator-therapist, his most lucid interlocutor. Because to investigate is to ask questions on reality, the authors of this volume have to emphasize a thinking thought, which asks - not, the already thought of the repeater - and an intellectual humility that meets the critic and seeks the debate; thus correcting error and enabling the construction of truth, always relative and provisional as long as life and work exist. So this set of texts serves those who want to learn and produce knowledge; not to anyone who wants to accumulate and display knowledge. To paraphrase Rorty, this is the recipe abstracted from its reading: if we cultivate freedom, truth will avenge itself. And finally, do not be afraid to dare. Antonio Coimbra de Matos Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst The Neurobiology - Psychotherapy - Pharmacology Intervention Triangle presents what may be called an outline of future psychiatry, based on an ecological view of mental illness, on a democratic approach to treatment, and on a non-reductive view of neurobiology. From interdisciplinary and interrelated perspectives, the authors of the volume describe an ensemble of interventions that are suitable to replace the dominance of biological approaches, without denying the need to integrate pharmacologicial treatment into a person-centered psychiatry. To this purpose, several chapters describe the theoretical foundations of a circular interaction of biological, psychotherapeutic, and social network processes in which the patients are involved. Further chapters present a variety of approaches such as recovery-based practices, open dialogue and other social communicative interventions that may enhance the patients' long-term social and mental well-being. A final part on phenomenology, existentialism and psychoanalysis integrates the traditional humanistic approaches into the outline of a person-centered, truly humane psychiatry. In sum, the volumen presents a multi-faceted, original and engaged collection of contributions which together constitute a major step forward for the whole field. Prof. Thomas Fuchs Karl Jaspers-Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry Head of the Section Phenomenological Psychopathology Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg

Without pretensions to the theory of everything and to the supreme algorithm, this book presents a sensible rational and a healthy effort to integrate current knowledge and to open the horizons of research in the territory-process of mental health and mental illness, its origin and its destiny, mode of understanding and art-science in response to their impasses and challenges. By proposing a Triangle Intervention, the self-regulated and autopoietic dynamic system of the human relationship is conceived and managed by reason of the imbricated sequential development and with frequent and fertile loops in the course of biogenic, sociogenic, and idiogenic factors-vectors, giving special emphasis to the latter because they are dependent on the neural networks of representation and generation - memory and imagination, nostalgy and hope, history and creativity - of the subject and agent of action. As if Man was not the first constructor of the Universe of Culture; and the investigator-therapist, his most lucid interlocutor. Because to investigate is to ask questions on reality, the authors of this volume have to emphasize a thinking thought, which asks - not, the already thought of the repeater - and an intellectual humility that meets the critic and seeks the debate; thus correcting error and enabling the construction of truth, always relative and provisional as long as life and work exist. So this set of texts serves those who want to learn and produce knowledge; not to anyone who wants to accumulate and display knowledge. To paraphrase Rorty, this is the recipe abstracted from its reading: if we cultivate freedom, truth will avenge itself. And finally, do not be afraid to dare. Ant nio Coimbra de Matos Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst The Neurobiology - Psychotherapy - Pharmacology Intervention Triangle presents what may be called an outline of future psychiatry, based on an ecological view of mental illness, on a democratic approach to treatment, and on a non-reductive view of neurobiology. From interdisciplinary and interrelated perspectives, the authors of the volume describe an ensemble of interventions that are suitable to replace the dominance of biological approaches, without denying the need to integrate pharmacologicial treatment into a person-centered psychiatry. To this purpose, several chapters describe the theoretical foundations of a circular interaction of biological, psychotherapeutic, and social network processes in which the patients are involved. Further chapters present a variety of approaches such as recovery-based practices, open dialogue and other social communicative interventions that may enhance the patients' long-term social and mental well-being. A final part on phenomenology, existentialism and psychoanalysis integrates the traditional humanistic approaches into the outline of a person-centered, truly humane psychiatry. In sum, the volumen presents a multi-faceted, original and engaged collection of contributions which together constitute a major step forward for the whole field. Prof. Thomas Fuchs Karl Jaspers-Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry Head of the Section Phenomenological Psychopathology Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg

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"João G. Pereira is the Clinical Director of Romão de Sousa Foundation (Casa de Alba). He holds a Doctorate in Psychotherapy from Middlesex University, following a number of years in the UK National Health Service developing and researching therapeutic programs. He is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), a Registered Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and has been awarded the European Certificate of Psychotherapy by the EAP. He is interested in understanding what goes on in developing and sustaining therapeutic relationships and in the intersection between psychoanalysis, philosophy and neuroscience. João is currently developing Post-Doctoral Research in Philosophical Psychiatry at NOVA University of Lisbon and is a member of international research groups. He teaches regularly in Évora University, Metanoia Institute and other academic institutions. He is the author and editor of a number of mental health publications and is on the organizing and scientific committee of several scientific events. Jorge de Almeida Gonçalves has been a postdoctoral researcher at IFILNOVA - FCSH (New University of Lisbon) for ten years. He has a Doctorate, a Masters, and a Degree in Philosophy and a further Degree in Psychology. His current research area is the Philosophy of Psychiatry, with a special focus on the ""concept of mental illness"", ""empathy in psychiatry"", and ""theories of schizophrenia"". Jorge has worked as a Clinical Psychologist for twelve years. He is also the author of several papers and editor of three books. Valeria Bizzari received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pisa with a dissertation entitled ""Phenomenology and Leib in the Contemporary Debate: an Embodied Proposal"". In 2015, she was a visiting PhD Researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen. While in 2017 she worked as a guest researcher at the Oxford Empathy Programme and the Clinical University of Heidelberg. Valeria is currently a DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical University of Heidelberg, where she focuses on the link between philosophy and psychiatry working on embodiment, intersubjectivity and psychopathology."

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