The thesis on this task will be to shake up the tension between philosophy and psychiatry, and to research how these two fields of research on human action can help each other. The philosophy and psychopathology on which psychiatry is based, has more in common than we might think, as they both face the question of what is imbalance of mind. Psychopathology and philosophy need to be in constant conversation as psychopathology relies on concepts derived from philosophy, while philosophy uses pathology to come up with arguments to clarify these same concepts. In this paper, we explore the effects of phenomenological philosophy in psychiatry, and through five authors reveal the ongoing crisis in psychiatry due to a lack of understanding of man as being in the world. We are exploring the difference between interpretation and understanding, between causality and meaning, and the processes and actions, or realities, of the direct experience of the meaning of the world, as it appears to us in action.
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