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George E. Atwood, PhD
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The Madness and Genius of Post-Cartesian Philosophy: 1 - A Distant Mirror
Time, Death, Eternity: Imagining the Soul of Johann Sebastian Bach
Nietzsche's Madness (with Commentary)
Shattered Worlds - Psychotic States
Heidegger's Nazism and the Hypostatization of Being
Legacies of the Golden Age: A Memoir of a Collaboration
Tragic & Metaphysical
The Demons of Phenomenological Contextualism: A Conversation
Credo and Reflections
There Must Be Blood
Blue is the Color: A Reichian Reverie
The Tightrope of Emotional Dwelling
The Phenomenological Circle and the Unity of Life and Thought
The Bloody Amputation: a discussion of a first dream in an analysis
Thoughts on Mania from an Intersubjective Viewpoint
The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphysicalizing of the Real
The Psychoanalytic Method of George Atwood By Natalie Smolenski
Abnormal Psych Lectures
Memories and Thoughts
Men on Hooks
The Abyss of Madness
The Dark Sun of Melancholia
The Unbearable and The Unsayable
What is a Ghost?
Thoughts on Evil
He Needs His Sleep
Kafka
Ninety-Ten
GLT
Letters to a Young Student
Deep Thoughts
Who Really Is Dr. E?
Unforgettable Personality Lectures from 2005
Mad in America Interview
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This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr. George Atwood. Dr. Atwood has devoted a substantial part of his life to the study and treatment of what he refers to as ‘so-called psychosis’. He has authored or coauthored several books, including The Abyss of madness published in 2011 and more than one hundred articles. In the episode we discuss: The story of how Dr. Atwood came to be interested in “so-called psychosis,” including what piqued his interest as a high school student, and his work under mentors Austin DesLauriers and Silvan Tomkins. An overview of his more recent work on intersubjective theory with collaborator and friend, Robert Stolorow. After studying what he refers to as “madness” for over 50 years, Dr. Atwood offers his perspective that madness is not a disease or illness existing within a person, but a subjective experience of self-dissolution or catastrophe. How diagnostic classification systems can result in the false reification of mental diseases in a way that obscures individual realities. The phenomenological approach, or the study of individual human subjective experiences, as offering a hopeful future in a shifting away from “illness” or “disorder” frameworks. How psychotherapy, as a healing process, includes the relational context between clinician and patient, meriting a dedication to personal histories and contexts rather than overt symptoms. The history of the term “schizophrenia,” and how terms such as these are embedded in a Cartesian medical model. A few of Dr. Atwood’s clinical cases and particularly his perspectives on “so-called psychosis” and “so-called bipolar disorder.” To get in touch with us email:
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