Summary Of Of Two Minds By T. M. Luhrman

T.M. Luhrmann wrote “Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry” as an anthropological study focusing on the psychiatric world of the United States. In it, she argues that the psychiatric field has split into “two minds” – biological and psychodynamic. Luhrmann compares two models of mental disorders, describing diagnosis and psychopharmacology psychiatry against a psychodynamic psychotherapy specialization. Matthew Ratcliffe’s article “Understanding Existential Changes in Psychiatric Illness” details the theory of existential phenomenology and how that idea contributes to the field of psychiatry. As a result, Luhrmann provides a comparison of the psychodynamic model and biomedical models of psychiatry, which are similar
The psychotherapist does not give advice or counsel their patient, instead having them talk about their problems to infer what is troubling the patient. The psychiatrist learns how to become more conscious of the way they empathize and interact with their patients better as a result. The center of psychotherapy is emotion, and to access a patient’s emotion one must talk to them and get to know their behaviors and
Phenomenology focuses on the structures of conscious experience and how the subjective experience of reality informs the psychological and personal understanding of a given person’s daily life. Ratcliffe’s “Understanding Existential Changes in Psychiatric Illness” informs the reader about phenomenology and why it is indispensible as a form of mental interpretation. Phenomenology does not try to provide casual information about existence, but does try to characterize existence by intentional directedness within the world. This theory, in line with most humans, is more concerned with existential