Philosophical Psychopathology

This text is a benchmark volume for an emerging field where mental disorders serve as the springboard for philosophical insights. It brings together current research by Owen Flanagan, Robert Gordon, Robert Van Gulick and others on mental disorders of consciousness, self-consciousness, emotions, personality, and action and belief as well as general methodological questions about the study of mental disorder. Topics include the problem of despair, multiple personality disorder, autism and the theory of the mind debate, and the effectiveness of psychotherapy. An introduction shows how to interpret philosophical psychopathology as an interdisciplinary field and locates the contributions in the book conceptually and in terms of the surrounding literature. Psychopathology promises to clarify and illuminate a host of philosophical issues. The 12 chapters focus chiefly on issues in applied philosophy of mind (personal identity and self-consciousness, voluntary action and self-control, cognition and practical reasoning), in the science of mind (the medical model of mental disorders, philosophy of science and psychiatry, psychopathology and folk psychology), and in the ethical and experimential dimensions of psychopathology.

ISBN 0262071592   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780262071598 (What's this?)   Pages 344 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint MIT Press   Weight (grammes) 658 Format Hardback   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Publication date 01 Mar 1995   Height (mm) 231 Non-book description ix, 332 p. ;   Width (mm) 160 Library of Congress RC454.4.P4   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 128   Academic level Further/Higher education, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		An Introduction to Philosophical Psychopathology: Its Nature, Scope, and Emergence by George Graham and G. Lynn Stephens		1
		Deficit Studies and the Function of Phenomenal Consciousness by Robert Van Gulick		25
		Emotional Disorder and Attention by Kent Bach		51
		The Problem of Despair by Richard Garrett		73
		Mind and Mine by George Graham and G. Lynn Stephens		91
		Going to Pieces by John Heil		111
		Multiple Identity, Character Transformation, and Self-Reclamation by Owen Flanagan		135
		Autism and the "Theory of Mind" Debate by Robert M. Gordon and John A. Barker		163
		Alcohol Addiction and Responsibility Attributions by Ferdinand Schoeman		183
		Value, Illness, and Failure of Action: Framework for a Philosophical Psychopathology of Delusions by K. W. M. Fulford		205
		Problems with the DSM Approach to Classifying Psychopathology by Jeffrey Poland and Barbara Von Eckardt and Will Spaulding		235
		The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy: Epistemological Issues by Edward Erwin		261
		The Placebo Concept in Medicine and Psychiatry by Adolf Grunbaum		285
		Contributors		325
		Index		329

 Be the first to write a customer review