Samopoznanie czy farmakoterapia? Filozoficzne implikacje sporu wokół soma i psyche w ujęciu psychoterapii przez Romana Markuszewicza

The problem of how to apprehend the relationship between the human body, its physiological basis and human mental life has been the object of fiery philosophical debate for centuries. In modern psychiatry and psychotherapy, it revolves around the question of the extent to which human mental life is...

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Published in:Principia (Kraków, Poland) Poland), 2016 (63), p.163-200
Main Author: Dybel, Paweł
Format: Article
Language:Polish
Subjects:
History of Philosophy
Philosophical Traditions
Special Branches of Philosophy
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Summary:The problem of how to apprehend the relationship between the human body, its physiological basis and human mental life has been the object of fiery philosophical debate for centuries. In modern psychiatry and psychotherapy, it revolves around the question of the extent to which human mental life is autonomous or is determined by the physiological processes of the human body. This dispute is not confined to the strictly anthropological dimension; it concerns also the question of the psychiatrist’s choice of an appropriate method of therapy for a patient. In this article, I present the standpoint adopted on this issue by Roman Markuszewicz, a prominent psychoanalytically-oriented Polish psychiatrist in the period between the two world wars. He was critical both of traditional forms of therapy ‘through faith’ and also of modern forms of therapy based on psychosurgery and pharmacotherapy. I discuss his main objections to these two different forms of therapy and his arguments for the effectiveness of a Freudian model of therapy based on dialogue with the patient and on an attempt to transform his self-understanding.
ISSN:0867-5392