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OverviewSchizophrenia 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Man Cheung Chung (Reader of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit, Reader of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit, School of Applied Psychosocial Studies, University of Plymouth) , Bill Fulford (Department of Philosophy and the Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry) , George Graham (Professor of Philosophy and Associate Faculty Neuroscience Institute, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Faculty Neuroscience Institute, Georgie State University, Atlanta)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.548kg ISBN: 9780198526131ISBN 10: 019852613 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 23 November 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1: 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 schizophreniaReviewsThe 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 Author InformationMan 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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