Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness

This volume presents an international research study which reconceptualizes diagnoses of schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the lived experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from the symptoms and experiences included in conventional diagnostic systems.

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.