Title

Towards a Relational and Existential Reimagining of Psychiatry

Creator

Latsidis -Chrysovalantis, Angelos

Abstract

This treatise confronts the foundations of modern psychiatry, arguing that its pursuit of normalization has severed suffering from its existential, relational, and ethical contexts. Drawing on existential philosophy (Heidegger, Levinas, Camus), psychiatric critique (Bracken, Cooper), and trauma studies (van der Kolk), it demands a re-founding of psychiatry not on optimization, but on tragic solidarity. Rejecting both pathological romanticism and mechanical symptom-management, the work envisions a psychiatry that sustains fracture without erasing it, honors relational wounding, and redefines healing as the courageous accompaniment of irreparable lives. Psychiatry must cease diagnosing malfunction and become a faithful witness to human brokenness.

Keywords

psychiatry

philosophy

artificial thresholds

Subject

Psychology

Date Available

May 22, 2025

Type

Poster presentation

Course

PH 4143 Philosophy of Psychiatry

Instructor

Vintiadis, Elly

Session

Poster Presentation

Location

Deree Corridor

Event

Year 2025 | 9th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium