Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies

• Contains first person descriptions from sufferers of schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness, helping the reader to understand how they experience their illness
• Provides an account of the phenomenological approach to psychopathology, giving the reader an essential tool for in-depth assessment of mental disorders
• Analyses these disorders from both psychiatric and philosophical perspectives, providing an interdisciplinary examination of the mental lives of sufferers

Readership: Psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Philosophers

Giovanni Stanghellini, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florence, Italy

"In this marvellous book, Stanghellini reinvigorates and resurrects psychopathology as more than just the listing of symptoms, re-presenting it as the 'science of the meanings of abnormal human phenomena' . . . The book, from the successful and influential OUP series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry, is, like the others, a joy to read . . . All mental health professionals are likely to gain, both clinically and intellectually, from reading this book, and carers, patients and philosophers will find much to help them engage with the potentially disorientating and frightening reality of psychosis." - Mental Health Today

Prologue - the tattooed room
1: The genealogy of psychopathology
2: The origins of the psychopathology of the social being
3: The ascetic misunderstanding and social phenomenology
4: Aporias of intersubjectivity
5: The social world of melancholic and schizophrenic persons
6: The senses of common sense
7: The internal statue
8: Cyborgs and scanners
9: Voices and consciousness
10: This is not a delusion
Epilogue