Understanding / Psychosis

"Understanding" in Jaspers' sense is the essential concept for defining psychosis, although its relationship is paradoxical, that is, psychosis is defined by un-understandability or inability to understand. Un-understandability means the inability of empathizing with the patient'...

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Main Author: Fukao, Kenjiro (Author)
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Published: IntechOpen, 2021-12-29.
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520 |a "Understanding" in Jaspers' sense is the essential concept for defining psychosis, although its relationship is paradoxical, that is, psychosis is defined by un-understandability or inability to understand. Un-understandability means the inability of empathizing with the patient's mind and implies the existence of a pathological process in the patient's brain. The pivotal concept which makes psychotic patients be judged as irresponsible in forensic cases is disturbed self-understanding or un-understandability of their own intentions. It is suggested that self-disorder representing psychosis might be based on disturbed self-understanding. 
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