Depression and embodiment: Phenomenological reflections on motility, affectivity, and transcendence

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 751-759

  Aho, Kevin A ^a  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Embodiment; Existentialism; Martin Heidegger; Maurice Merleau Ponty; Phenomenology; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AFFECT; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84888130735     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-013-9470-8     Document Type: Article

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