An introduction to psychopathology that unites classic phenomenology with contemporary science.

Psychopathology: An Empathic Representational Approach integrates modern ideas drawn from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, computational science, and evolutionary biology with the foundations of phenomenological psychopathology to synthesize a comprehensive framework and provide fresh insights.

This book explores how the scientific concepts of “information and representation” can be used to understand subjective mental phenomena and integrate them into empathic clinical dialogues during interactions with patients. It explores key issues in clinical psychopathology coherently and systematically, illustrates advanced topics in an accessible manner using clinical case examples, metaphors, and clarifying diagrams, and directly links advanced conceptual frameworks with pragmatic skills in the clinical dialogue process.

This volume is aimed at a broad audience of mental health professionals, researchers, and students in psychiatry, psychology, and social work. Its interdisciplinary treatment of the subject will also interest biologists, anthropologists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers.