Re: Heidegger and Psychiatry

To Rick Novar:

The situation is not as dark as you forecast, I think.
Recently, in the literature, there have been some very critical articles of
the entire DSM-based diagnoses.
Also, I think that Szasz's views, via the later views of Foucault and
Heidegger, are slowly having an influence on the psychiatric community
in the States (it seems that DSM is not as central in European countries
or in England). In fact, a couple of years ago, a wonderful anthology
was published on Psychiatry and Phenomenology (I don't have my
books with me, so I don't remember). Also, if you read German, there
is a translation available of a work by Dr. Kimura Bin -- he's a good
man, out of Kyoto University, and whle in Germany had some chances
to talk to Heidegger, and formulate a new concept of 'subject' which is
crafted from the work of Weizsacker (unfortunately, involved in bio-
experiments for the Nazis), Heidegger, and Maturana. The book is
worth reading.
jim


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