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Existentialism and Psychiatry

Comment on the Article by Frank Fish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

E. K. Ledermann
E. K. Ledermann*
Affiliation:
Marlborough Day Hospital, London, N.W.8
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Frank Fish's paper, published in The Journal of Mental Science in September 1961, pp. 978–985, deals with issues which are fundamental for psychiatry. He examines the different approaches used in existential psychology and especially the philosophical basis of existential psychiatry. In his conclusion, he denies its value. His paper demands a reply, since it contains misrepresentations.

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Controversial
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 455 , July 1962 , pp. 525 - 527
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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