"...the consciousness of the individual person unfolds as the experience of his own inner history. Every single moment is a phase in his historical becoming. Everything coming into consciousness in a specific moment is determined by how it fits into the course of this becoming or how it arrests or runs counter to it. Everything attention lays hold of, is present and is now. But this Now is the Now of the inner life-history, whose progress in becoming is not measurable by the standard of objective time."
Straus, a German born neurologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, was a member of the inner circle of the European movement of anthropological and phenomenological psychiatry. This group was dedicated to combatting mechanistic and physicalistic viewpoints in psychiatry, and establishing a broad philosophical conception of man's existence. Straus declared his personal allegiance to the defense of a holistic view of the human person, with respect for the autonomy and dignity of the individual. These ethical issues permeate and animate his psychological writings.
Links
Erwin
Straus at Victor Barbetti's E.P. Page
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is Phenomenology?
Phenomenology
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Simon
Silverman Phenomenology Center (home of the Straus alcove)
"Emotion,
Movement and Psychological Space" by Brent Dean Robbins
"Medicine's
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"On
Turning a Zen Ear" by David Appelbaum
"The
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"Person
Perception" by C.G. Boeree
Janus Head
International
Human Science Research Newsletter
Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy
Center
for Philosophy and Phenomenological Studies
Center
for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
Recommended Books:
Man,
Time, and World : Two Contributions in Anthropological Psychology
(out of print)
by Erwin Straus
Phenomenological
Psychology (out of print)
by Erwin Straus
On
Obsession (out of print)
by Erwin Straus
Insight
into Value : An Exploration of the Premises of a Phenomenological Psychology
by Andrew R. Fuller
Our Price: $21.95
Phenomenological
Psychology : An Introduction
by Raymond J. McCall
Our Price: $13.95
Phenomenological
Inquiry in Psychology : Existential and Transpersonal Dimensions
by Ronald S. Valle (Editor), Ron Valle (Editor)
Our Price: $42.50
Theories
of Anxiety
by William F. Fischer
Our Price: $21.50
The
Absent Body
by Drew Leder
Our Price: $17.95
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