The poet, the philosopher, the physician: a study on suffering

This paper consists of a dialogue among a poet, a phenomenologist and a psychopathologist. Their common ground is the therapeutic clinic and a possible understanding of psychopathology in an interdisciplinary dialogue. We hold that literature, philosophy and psychiatric medicine help us understand human suffering not only as an intrapsychic event, but closely related to the sensitivity, affectivity and personal experience of human time and space in connection with environmental and cultural factors.

Literature; phenomenology; psychopathology; clinical psychology