Main description:

* Offers an original approach to madness and mental health by integrating human experience in history
* Furnishes practical implications for advancing holistic care in mental health
* Gives a new synthesis between the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Foucault

Contents:

Part I: Introducing the United Approach; Introduction; 1. The Case for Unity: Integrating Experience in History; Part II: Merleau-Ponty: Madness and the Pre-Rational; 2. Phenomenology of the Pre-Rational; 3. Phenomenology of Madness; Part III: Foucault: Madness and the Irrational; 4. Archaeology of the Irrational; 5. Archaeology of Madness; Part IV: Synthesizing Merleau-Ponty and Foucault; 6. Merleau-Ponty vs. Foucault; 7. Resolving the Problems: Uniting the Perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and Foucault; Part V: Toward an Application; 8. The Strength of a United Approach: Implications for Psychology; Conclusion