Author: Siirala, Martti
Title: Medicine in Metamorphosis : Speech, Presence and Integration
Description: London, Tavistock Publications, 1969. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, vii,164 pp. Inscribed by author on half-title, with author's inked corrections & additions to text on one page.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Translated by Jaakko S. Tola and Herbert Lomas. Series: Studies in Existentialism and Phenomenology. Contents: Five Children with Disturbed Speech Development; Constellations: Human Presence: The Foundation of Speech; Diagnosis & Differentiation; Basic Structural Components of Disease Constellations; Why 'Constellations'?; Aetiology: Control through Reduction: The Dominant Attitude in Medicine; The Primacy of the Reductive Attitude, & Its Influence on Interpretation & Treatment; Basic Forms of Cause-Detection; Cause & Effect as Processes of Various Dimensions; Man as the Receiver of Man; Analysis of some Key Concepts: Psyche / Soma Thinking:The Undifferentiated Basic Bipolar Pattern; Man as a Bodily Existing Being; On the Anthropology of Speech & some Speech Disturbances; The Disease Process: Hope, Despair & the History of Receiving; Disease as an Alarm & the Transference of the Alarm Received; Prognosis: Dimensions of Prognosis; Factors Affecting Prognosis; Prognosis, Experience of the Actual Situation & Evaluation; Examination & Treatment: A Dialectic between Reductive Control & Jointly Responsible Awareness; Freud's Principle of Abstinence; The Anthropological Structure of the Therapeutic Task.

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