Psicopatologia fenomenológico-existencia l: o adoecimento do ser

Abstract

This monograph presents a reflection on psychopathology from a phenomenological-existential perspective, grounded in Martin Heidegger’s existential analytic. Starting from a critique of the dominant biomedical and technical model in contemporary society – which reduces psychic suffering to objectifiable dysfunctions – the study seeks to understand illness as a possible mode of being of the human entity, inherent to its ontological condition of openness, indeterminacy, and finitude. Based on the concept of Dasein, psychopathology is discussed as an expression of the narrowing of existential freedom and the attempt to preserve familiarity in the face of existential anxiety. As a theoretical-clinical illustration, the case of the character P., inspired by the novel O peso do pássaro morto, by Aline Bei, is analyzed, emphasizing how her modes of existence reflect pathological ways of relating to the world, to others, and to herself. The study concludes that phenomenological-existential psychopathology offers a sensitive and non-reductionist approach to understanding human suffering, valuing its singularity, historicity, and existential complexity.