Publisher's Synopsis
This book is not a monotonous descriptive presentation of finished immobile mental states. It is an unrepeatable philosophical journey in the tempestuous interior of the psychic cloud. Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry mark the field of knowledge of this book whose philosophical-anthropological core is the archeology of consciousness. The human elements involved in its architecture, which is the ultimate work of art, are the wild corporeality, emotional and desire impulses, the dialectic comprehensive reason and human's infinite freedom. In this process that structures the mental life, man experiences the ultimate conflict, the struggle of spirit's freedom, the infinite possibility of self-conception, before its finite existence. This conflict is madness and it's characterized by contradiction within the psychic cloud with blockage of the dialectical rationality. Inability to build, discord and dissatisfaction within the relationship with ourselves: intrapsychic disorder. Madness, is a temporary phase to which we are all subject. It depends on the problem, the context and the person: it can take a minute, three hours or a month to resolve. But for the individual, madness is absolute. There is no universal panacea. Its root, however, is universal, it lies in the blockage of freedom's dialectics and its consequent intellectual-emotional disharmony. A discipline called Philosophy of Psychology has its core here.If, on the one hand, madness is a human privilege as Hegel says, on the other hand, being intimate rupture, constitutes the antechamber to mental disorder and personal crisis. Not being a classical disease, mental disorder results from the persistence of madness; it's characterized by the inability to structure and coordinate what is perceived from the world and to conform it into a stabilized intellectual cloud represented as I. Psychiatric drugs act negatively, precisely in this psychic place blocking the comprehensive faculty to become autonomous. This book shows the ineffectiveness of the classic mechanistic, bio-psycho-pharmacological model of psychiatry and presents the solution to madness and mental disorder, which is not pharmacological. It is directed to the reactivation of the natural capacities of man: the stimulation of the dialectical-rational talent, human being's own capacity that agglutinates body and spirit in a whole, man, who, eternally open to everything, feels and knows thyself complete and saving himself from madness trough consciousness.
