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- Title
THE PSYCHIATRIC CONCEPT OF CAUSATION: PHILOSOPHICAL AND SEMIOTIC CONTRIBUTIONS.
- Authors
Cutting, J.
- Abstract
The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the problematic notion of causality in the psychiatric literature. The author describes the received viewpoint, which boils down to but two candidates (excluding various terms covering an inherent predisposition) - psychogenesis and organicity - the mechanism of each being only ever vaguely formulated. The author suggest that within the philosophical corpus of Max Scheler and Ernst Cassirer there are insights pertinent to the notion of psychogenesis, and that relatively unknown work by a handful of Russian semioticians sheds light on the issue of organicity in this context.
- Publication
Appraisal, 2013, Vol 9, Issue 3, p13
- ISSN
1358-3336
- Publication type
Academic Journal