Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy

Part I. Trauma. Meaning and Psychiatry. Introduction. Enlightenment. Psychiatry and The Nature of Mind. Post traumatic Anxiety. The Limitations of cognitive Approaches to Meaning and Trauma. Part II. A Phenomenological Approach to Meaning and its Loss. Heiddegger s Account of Human Reality. A Heideggerian approach to Psychology and Psychotherapy. Meaning Anxiety and Ontology. Authenticity in Question. Part III. Meaning and The Culture of Postmodernity. Modernity. Postmodernity and The Question of Meaning. Responding at postmodernity. Conclusion.