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Existentialism and Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Frank Fish
Frank Fish*
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Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh
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In psychiatry we often use different kinds of psychology without being aware of doing so. Before we consider existentialist psychiatry in detail we must discuss the three different kinds of psychology, namely, explanatory psychology, understanding psychology and interpretive psychology.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 450 , September 1961 , pp. 978 - 985
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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