Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness

Foreword

John Strauss

Introduction

Sarah Kamens

1. Psychiatric Diagnosis in History

Sarah Kamens & Fredrick Wertz

2. The Emergence of the "Schizophrenia" Diagnosis: Convention, Cross-Cultural, and Alternative Approaches

Sarah Kamens & Frederick Wertz

3. Phenomenological Accounts

Sarah Kamens & Frederick Wertz

4. A Multi-Site International Project

Sarah Kamens, Frederick Wertz, Jessica Yisca Baris Ginat, Jacob Kader, David Miller, Lyra Ward, Tal Shachar-Malach & Pesach Lichtenberg.

5. Urhomelessness as a Way of Being-in-the-World

Sarah Kamens, Frederick Wertz, Ryan Scanlon, Jessica Yisca Baris Ginat, Jillian Minahan Zucchetto, Faith Forgione, Ileana Driggs, Lia Kamar, Katherine Sullivan, Caroline Silva, Oren Matar & Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey.

6. Wandering in Exile: The Nomadic Moment

Sarah Kamens & Frederick Wertz

7. Imaginal and Ideal Home: The Settled Moment

Sarah Kamens & Frederick Wertz

8. Impossibility of Shelter: The Destitute Moment

Sarah Kamens & Frederick Wertz

9. A Continuum of Experience: Urhomelessness and Recovery

Sarah Kamens, Jessica Yisca Baris Ginat, Ryan Scanlon, Faith Forgione, Ileana Driggs, Jillian Minahan, Lia Kamar, Pesach Lichtenberg.

10. Cultural Diversity and Sameness

Sarah Kamens, Frederick Wertz, Lia Kamar, Oren Matar, Illeana Driggs, Jillian Minahan Zucchetto, Faith Forgione, Ryan Scanlon & Jessica Yisca Baris Ginat.

11. Diagnostic Heterogeneities

Sarah Kamens

12. Phenomenological and Interdisciplinary Literatures

Sarah Kamens

13. Future Directions

Sarah Kamens, Jessica Yisca Baris Ginat, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey, Faith Forgione, Ileana Driggs, Jillian Minahan Zucchetto, Ryan Scanlon, Lia Kamar & Pesach Lichtenberg.

14. Implications for Cultural and Structural Worlds

Sarah Kamens & Pesach Lichtenberg

Biography

Sarah Kamens is a clinical psychologist and interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the phenomenology of emotional distress, including the distress that results from structural disparities and psychosocial mar-ginalization. Alongside her colleagues in the Society for Humanistic Society, Dr. Kamens explores possibilities for diagnostic alternatives in the mental health professions.

'In this work we are provided with a much-needed breadth of approach (and thus a breath of fresh air) to understanding the problem of mental illness. The use of the broad approach including the questions brought by the interest in <<urhomelessness>> all contribute to the considerations so needed in our field.'

John Strauss, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Yale University

'In this acute and moving analysis, the authors explore a crucial feature of many who suffer from what has traditionally been termed "schizophrenia": feelings of utter homelessness, of wandering lost and alone in an uncanny world that offers no sense of safety or emotional sustenance. This is a work of deep empathy and marked inconoclasm. It opens new avenues for research and reflection - also for more effective forms of treatment, both in therapy and on a societal level.'

Louis Sass, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Clincial Psychology; Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) Rutgers University

'Wide ranging and beautifully written, one of the standout achievements of this phenomenological work is its engagement with culture, both at a more macro level (informants in Israel, Palestine and the US), and in its attention to the nuanced ways in which cultural contexts infuse and shape the experience and existential import of psychosis. Both those who agree and disagree with Kamen's underlying thesis of urhomelessness will find a text rich with insights and provocations positioned to unsettle tired phenomenological tropes and break new ground at the intersections of subjectivie experience, culture and religion, and identity.'

Nev Jones, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Pitssburgh