(Dis)Embodied Encounters: Deciphering Intersubjectivity in the Context of the Prescription of Drugs

Through this contribution, I aim to show how phenomenology and hermeneutics can enrich the understanding and development of clinical encounters conceived in terms of intersubjectivity, and how it may be problematic to decipher this intersubjectivity in the context of the prescription of drugs. In order to achieve these goals, this chapter is split into three main sections. In the first section, I will introduce the theoretical framework of this work, briefly reconstructing the history of phenomenology and its recent adjustments to cognitive science and to neuroscience. I will also clarify some key concepts at the heart of the phenomenological enterprise. In the second sect. I will address the issue of the clinical encounter in terms of intersubjectivity, and in the last section, I will discuss how the prescription of drugs may impact the intersubjective encounter.