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OverviewThe first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness. In the ten years since the first edition, there has been growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever. In The Mind and its Discontents, Grant Gillett argues that an understanding of mental illness requires more than just a study of biological models of mental processes and pathologies. As intensely social animals, he argues, we need to look for the causes of human mental disorders in our interactions with others; in social rule-following and its role in the organization of mental content; in the power relations embedded within social structures and cultural norms; in the way that our mental life is inscribed by a cumulative life of encounters with others. Drawing upon work from within the philosophy of mind, epistemology, post-modern continental philosophy, and philosophy of language, he tries to elucidate the nature of psychiatric phenomena involving disorders of thought, perception, emotion, moral sense, and action. Within this framework, a series of chapters analyse important psychiatric disorders such as depression, attention deficiency, autism, schizophrenia, and anorexia. Along the way, Gillett explores the nature of memory and identity; of hysteria and what constitutes rational behaviour; and of what causes us to label someone a psychopath or deviant. Updated, available in paperback, and more accessible than before, the new edition of this fascinating book will provide readers with important insights into the causes and nature of psychosis. In addition, Gillett's arguments have considerable implications for the way in which we understand and treat people suffering from psychiatric disorders. The Mind and its Discontents will be read by researchers and postgraduate students in a range of academic areas, including psychiatry, bioethics, philosophy of mind, social theory, and clinical psychology. It will also be of considerable interest to practising psychiatrists. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Grant Gillett (Dunedin Hospital and Otago Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.676kg ISBN: 9780199237548ISBN 10: 0199237549 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 30 April 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Mind, brain and psychiatry 2: Psychiatric categorization 3: The treatment of aliens 4: The depths of the self 5: Thought in disarray 6: The black dog and the muse 7: Fidgets 8: I and other robots 9: Moral insanity and evil 10: 'My name is Legion for we are many' 11: I eat therefore I am not 12: The meaning of hysteria 13: The good that I would do 14: Interrogating psychiatry and philosophy AppendicesReviewsOverall a great achievement and a substantial contribution to the (ethically) right theorisation of psychiatry. Andrew Hodgkiss, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust `Review from previous edition Gillett's book is a serious and morally sensitive attempt to weld two approaches into a harmony, avoiding crude materialist reduction on the one hand and naïve sentimentality, or an irrationalist slide into post-modernism, on the other... This is a work of significance, and its comprehensiveness and the depth and subtlety of its analyses of central domains of psychiatry moves the growing literature in this genre one more step forward. ' Rom Harre, Medical Humanities Review Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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