Mental illness and privation of home

Authors

  • Pavel Pavlovský

Keywords:

home, mental illness, privation, schizophrenia, daseinsanalytic psychotherapy, phenomenology, Heidegger, Patočka, being

Abstract

Mental illness and privation of home. – The article tries to perceive mental illness as a privation of the phenomenon of home. Home is understood not only in its psychological or sociological meanings but mainly in its ontological sense. The article gives a brief introduction of the phenomenon of home – described by ancient philosophers (Heraklit, Anaximandros, Plato) as well as phenomenological thinkers of the 20th century (M. Heidegger, J. Patočka). The author sees mental illness as a strange painful situation (Chorismos), which can lead through daseinsanalytic psychotherapy (understood as socratic Epimeleia) to the state of better understanding of Being itself.

Author Biography

Pavel Pavlovský

Mgr. et Mgr. Pavel Pavlovský, psycholog a psychoterapeut, který se zabývá filosofií a praxí daseinsanalytické psychoterapie. Pracuje v soukromé psychoterapeutické praxi v Řevnicích, dále v Denním psychoterapeutickém sanatoriu Ondřejov, které poskytuje péči především pacientům s onemocněním schizofrenií. Autor je rovněž doktorandem Katedry občanské výchovy a filosofie UK PedF.

Published

2019-04-11