DIALOGUE OF SCIENCES IN ENACTIVIST PSYCHIATRY: T. FUCHS’ NEUROPHENOMENOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Olga Aleksandrovna Vlasova
Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Keywords: interdisciplinarity, neurophenomenology, hard problem of consciousness, enactivism, neurobiology, intentionality, experience, embodiment
Abstract
The paper analyzes the problem of interdisciplinarity on the example of T. Fuchs’ neurophenomenology. The author reconstructs the history of the dialogue the philosophy and psychiatry as the history of antinomianism of scientific approaches, reveals the foundations of enactivism as the basis for the cessation of antinomianism in the philosophy of psychiatry, discovers two waves of enactivism in psychiatry. Enactivist attitudes of modern neurophenomenology are clarified. The significance of neurophenomenology for discussions on the “hard problem of consciousness” is shown. The paper includes the consistent analysis of the project of Thomas Fuchs’ neurophenomenology and its serious attitudes: criticism of neurobiologism, reductionism and representationism. The structure of neurophenomenology is reconstructed and the central problem of embodiment is posed. The paper discusses the main pathological transformations of consciousness as a field of intentionality: changes in corporeality, temporality and social relations. It is shown that Fuchs’ ideas on relational psychiatry and polydisciplinarity is especially productive. The author studies the interaction of neurobiology and philosophy, psychotherapy in their analysis and the correction of mental illnesses. The productivity of Fuchs’ model for international specialists and the possibilities of its development in the Russian tradition of neuropsychology and psychotherapy is emphasized.
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