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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Man 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. Klappentext Schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives. This book is unique in examining it from a philosophical point of view. It should appeal to every reader who wants to better understand this major mental illness, providing unique insights into the 'experience' of schizophrenia. Zusammenfassung Schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives. This book is unique in examining it from a philosophical point of view. It should appeal to every reader who wants to better understand this major mental illness, providing unique insights into the 'experience' of schizophrenia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Man Cheung Chung, K W M Fulford and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and Richard P Bentall: The functions of delusional beliefs 15: Rom Harré: The logical basis of psychiatric meta-narratives 16: Eric Matthews: Suspicions of schizophrenia ...
