Metanoia, London, UK ACKNOWLEDGMENT OR KNOWLEDGE ? A person-centred approach to psychopathology and diagnosis Workshop Peter F. Schmid

9 April 2006
Metanoia: www.metanoia.ac.uk

Peter F. Schmid

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OR KNOWLEDGE ?
A person-centred approach to psychopathology and diagnosis

Are diagnoses and psychopathological categories compatible with the person-centred image of the human being? Is disorder-specific thinking and acting a further development of the PCA or is it a turning away from a person-centred approach? If it is compatible, what then is the distinguishing characteristics of being person-centred, the reason why the PCA is a therapeutic approach of its own? On the other hand, if the unique principles of the approach require a rejection of such ideas how can the approach survive in a society and a health system that demand these categories - or would sticking to our foundations simply mean to become a radical but insignificant minority?

In this workshop I would lke to discuss with you these and related questions from an anthropological, epistemological and ethical point of view.

PowerPoint presentation, lecture, group work, discussion