Reconceiving Schizophrenia

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-852613-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. Though schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives, few attempts have been made to apply the tool kit of philosophy to schizophrenia, the mix of global analysis, conceptual insight, and argumentative clarity that is indicative of a philosophical perspective.

This book is a major effort at redressing that imbalance. Recent developments in the area of philosophy known as the philosophy of psychiatry have made it clear that it is time for philosophy to contribute to our understanding of schizophrenia. The range of contributions is many and varied. Some contributors are professional philosophers; some not. Some contributions focus on matters of method and history. Others argue for dramatic reforms in our understanding of schizophrenia or its symptoms. The authors in this book are committed to the idea that philosophy can indeed help to understand schizophrenia in a way which is different from but complements traditional medical-clinical approaches.

The book should appeal to every reader who wants to better understand a major mental illness, including its distinctive character, conscious content, and sources of puzzlement. Readers will find the essays gathered here afford stimulating insights into the human mind and its conditions of vulnerability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chung, Man Cheung

Fulford, Bill

Graham, George

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Man Cheung Chung, K W M Fulford and George Graham: Introduction: on reconceiving schizophrenia

- 2: Colin King: They diagnosed me a schizophrenic when I was just a Gemini. 'The other side of madness'

- 3: Man Cheung Chung: Conceptions of schizophrenia

- 4: Louis Sass and Josef Parnas: Explaining schizophrenia: the relevance of phenomenology

- 5: Alfred Kraus: Schizophrenic delusion and hallucination as the expression and consequence of an alteration of the existential a prioris

- 6: Osborne P Wiggins and Michael A Schwartz: Schizophrenia: a phenomenological-anthropological approach

- 7: Giovanni Stanghellini: Schizophrenia and the sixth sense

- 8: Grant Gillett: The paralogisms of psychosis

- 9: Jeffrey Poland: How to move beyond the concept of schizophrenia

- 10: G Lynn Stephens and George Graham: The delusional stance

- 11: Andy Hamilton: Against the belief model of delusion

- 12: Mike Jackson: The clinician's illusion and benign psychosis

- 13: Jennifer Radden: Defining persecutory paranoia

- 14: Peter Kinderman and Richard P Bentall: The functions of delusional beliefs

- 15: Rom Harré: The logical basis of psychiatric meta-narratives

- 16: Eric Matthews: Suspicions of schizophrenia

Über Autor(innen)

Man Cheung Chung earned his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology at the University of Guelph, Canada, and PhD at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He worked as a Research Psychologist at University College London. He then took on a Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and subsequently held lectureships at the Universities of Wolverhampton and Sheffield. He is now a Reader in the Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit at the University of Plymouth. He is also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research interests include history and philosophy of psychology and health/clinical psychology. He has published over 100 articles and chapters in the foregoing areas as well as on other diverse topics.

Before joining the faculty of Wake Forest in 2003, Graham served for more than twenty-five years on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), including seventeen as philosophy department chair. Graham's research focuses on topics in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and psychiatry.