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Fragmented selves: temporality and identity in borderline personality disorderThomas Fuchs
Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 40:379-87. 2007..Finally, the increasing prevalence of these disorders is linked to the development of a mainly externally driven, fragmented character in post-modern society...
Psychotherapy of the lived space: a phenomenological and ecological conceptThomas Fuchs
Psychiatric Department, University Clinic of Heidelberg, Vosstrasse 4, D 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Am J Psychother 61:423-39. 2007..The main agent for this purpose is the interactive field of psychotherapy, which may be regarded as a "fusion of horizons" of the patient's and the therapist's worlds...
The temporal structure of intentionality and its disturbance in schizophreniaThomas Fuchs
Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 40:229-35. 2007..Phenomenological analyses may thus establish a link between experimental research on single mental dysfunctions on the one hand and the higher level of the patient's subjective experience on the other...
Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in psychiatric diagnosisThomas Fuchs
Ruprecht Karls Universitat Heidelberg, Psychiatrische Klinik, Vossstrasse 4, Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 43:268-74. 2010..These three approaches will be compared regarding their respective values for psychopathological description, diagnosis, research and therapeutic purposes...
Ethical issues in neuroscienceThomas Fuchs
Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Curr Opin Psychiatry 19:600-7. 2006..The study gives an overview of ethical questions raised by the progress of neuroscience in identifying and intervening in neural correlates of the mind...
Delusional mood and delusional perception -- a phenomenological analysisThomas Fuchs
Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 38:133-9. 2005..The 'pathic' component of perception becomes independent. Thus, the intersubjective constitution of reality is replaced by idiosyncratic meanings and qualities of perception, leading finally into delusional perception...
[Ecology of the brain. A systemic view for psychiatry and psychotherapy]T Fuchs
Psychiatrische Universitatsklinik, Heidelberg
Nervenarzt 76:1-10. 2005..The consequences of this ecological conception for our view of mental illness, for therapeutic approaches and for the role of subjectivity in psychiatry are pointed out...
The challenge of neuroscience: psychiatry and phenomenology todayThomas Fuchs
Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 35:319-26. 2002..Phenomenology offers a methodically developed theory of human subjectivity that is indispensable to any attempt to understand, explore and treat psychiatric disorders...
Embodiment and psychopathology: a phenomenological perspectiveThomas Fuchs
Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Curr Opin Psychiatry 22:570-5. 2009..To survey recent developments in phenomenological psychopathology...
Interactive regulation of affect in postpartum depressed mothers and their infants: an overviewCorinna Reck
Department of General Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Vosstrasse 2, DE 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 37:272-80. 2004..In connection with an overview on these issues, treatment models for parent-infant psychotherapy are discussed...
[Psychotherapy for postpartum depression with a focus on mother-infant interaction]C Reck
Allgemeine Psychiatrie, Psychiatrische Klinik der Universitat Heidelberg
Nervenarzt 75:1068-73. 2004..Finally, an integrated treatment approach for postpartum depression including mother-infant-centered interventions is presented...
Prevalence, onset and comorbidity of postpartum anxiety and depressive disordersC Reck
Department of General Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Acta Psychiatr Scand 118:459-68. 2008..Associations with sociodemographic variables and previous history of psychopathology were analysed...
Spectral features of laser-accelerated protons for radiotherapy applicationsJ Weichsel
BIOQUANT, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, Heidelberg, Germany
Phys Med Biol 53:4383-97. 2008....
The ghost in the machine: disembodiment in schizophrenia--two case studiesSanneke de Haan
Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 43:327-33. 2010..As for the practical implications of the phenomenological approach, further research is needed to investigate if and how body- and movement-oriented therapies might strengthen the embodiment of schizophrenic patients...
Delusions of technical alien control: a phenomenological description of three casesDusan Hirjak
Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 43:96-103. 2010..In such cases, patients experience their thoughts, movements and feelings to be controlled by mysterious machines and contemporary technologies such as computers, the internet, X-rays and lasers...
Does any aspect of mind survive brain damage that typically leads to a persistent vegetative state? Ethical considerationsJaak Panksepp
Department of VCAPP, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
Philos Ethics Humanit Med 2:32. 2007....
Uprooting and late-life psychosisT Fuchs
Psychiatrische Klinik, , , Germany
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 244:126-30. 1994..The possible relevance of early uprooting and expulsion to the development of late-life paranoid psychosis is examined...
Time-space learning in homing pigeons (Columba livia): orientation to an artificial light sourceEdward J Petruso
Department of Psychology and J P Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
Anim Cogn 10:181-8. 2007..Probe sessions following a phase shift of the light-dark cycle revealed that the mechanism employed to make the temporal discrimination was prevailingly based on an endogenous circadian rhythm and not an interval timing mechanism...
