Hermeneutical injustice and unworlding in Psychopathology
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2023-01-21
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
The rich literature in phenomenological psychopathology
regards the communicative difficulties accompanying psy chiatric illness as a product of ‘unworlding‘: the experience
of a drastic change in one’s habitual field of experience. This
paper argues that the relationship between speech expres sion and unworlding in psychiatric illness is more complex
than previously assumed. Not only does unworlding cause
a breakdown in speech expression, but a breakdown in
speech expression can perpetuate, and even exacerbate,
the experience of unworlding characteristic of psychiatric
illness. In other words, I identify a two-way relationship
between unworlding and the communication breakdown in
psychiatric illness. Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of
speech expression is drawn upon to demonstrate how her meneutical injustice in psychiatric healthcare can elicit
unworlding for the person with a psychiatric illness
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Phenomenology; epistemic injustice; hermeneutical injustice; unworlding; philosophy of psychiatry; Merleau-Ponty