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Reconceiving Schizophrenia
Edited by Man Cheung Chung, Bill Fulford, and George Graham
352 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-852613-1
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Paperback
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23 November 2006
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- Contains original papers offering cutting edge insights into philosophical issues related to schizophrenia, providing health professionals and psychiatrists with a view of this illness very different from the usual medical or clinical perspective
- Includes many chapters written by prestigious, international scholars of psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy, arguing for important reforms in our understanding of both the symptoms and experiences of victims of this condition
- Edited by leading figures in philosophy and psychiatry
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.Readership: Psychiatrists and philosophers.
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Edited by Man Cheung Chung, Reader of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit, School of Applied Psychosocial Studies, University of Plymouth, UK, Bill Fulford, Department of Philosophy and the Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, and George Graham, A C Reid Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Faculty Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA Contributors:
Richard Bentall, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Man Cheung Chung, Dept of Psychology, University of Plymouth, UK
K W M Fulford, Medical School,
University of Warwick, UK
Grant Gillett, Otago Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand
George Graham, Dept of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA
Andy Hamilton, Dept of Philosophy, University of Durham, UK
Rom Harré, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford, UK
Mike Jackson, Dept of Psychology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, UK
Peter Kinderman, Dept of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK
Colin King, London, UK
Alfred Kraus, Psychiatric Clinic, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany
Eric Matthews, Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK
Josef Parnas, Dept of Psychiatry, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jeffrey Poland, Center for Curriculum & Instruction, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
Jennifer Radden, Dept of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Louis Sass, Dept of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA
Michael A Schwartz, Dept of Philosophy, University of Louisville, USA
Giovanni Stanghellini, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Florence, Italy
G Lynn Stephens, Dept of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Osborne P Wiggins, Dept of Philosophy, University of Louisville, USA
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"The volume contains many thought-provoking and worthwhile contributions, with little overlap of content, and all of them deserve detailed consideration. It serves as an amazing achievement of conceptual rigor in thinking about schizophrenia." - British Journal of Psychiatry, "This book is an inspiring and rigorous overview of philosophy's attempts to understand schizophrenia and is worthwhile reading fro anyone - practitioner, academic, or individual - challenged by this most distressing of disorders." - Mental Health Today
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1: Man Cheung Chung, K W M Fulford & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & Richard P Bentall: The functions of delusional beliefs
15: Rom Harré: The logical basis of psychiatric meta-narratives
16: Eric Matthews: Suspicions of schizophrenia
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