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Zusatztext . . . the majority of the chapters are useful and absorbing from both an intellectual and a practical point of view . . . overall this is a highly successful first venture for the new series. Several of the issues raised are fundamental to the humane practice of psychiatry and should be part of any training curriculum . . . this book would repay reading by anyone in the mental health field who has a curiosity about conceptual issues and who is prepared to question ideas and assumptions which are so often taken for granted in our work. Klappentext Nature and Narrative is the launch volume in a new series of books entitled International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. The series will aim to build links between the sciences and humanities in psychiatry.Our ability to decipher mental disorders depends to a unique extent on both the sciences and the humanities! science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem! enabling us to formulate an 'explanation'! and the humanities provides insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. Psychiatry! if it to develop as a balanced discipline! must draw on input from both of these spheres.Nature(for causes) and Narrative(for meanings) will help define the series as a whole by touching on range of issues relevant to this 'border country'. With contributions form an international star-studded cast! representing the field of psychiatry! psychology and philosophy! this volume will setthe scene for this new interdisciplinary field.This will be of interest to all members of the mental health team as well as to philosophers! social scientists! and bioethicists. Zusammenfassung Part of the series "International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry", this work aims to build links between the sciences and humanities in psychiatry. It is of interest to those with practical experience of mental health issues, whether as providers or as users/consumers of services, as well as to philosophers and social scientists. 1. Past improbable, future possible: the renaissance in philosophy and psychiatry; SECTION 1 - RECYCLING HISTORY?; 2. Towards a psyche for psychiatry; SECTION 2 - A NEW KIND OF PHILOSOPHY; 3. Wittgenstein's method and psychoanalysis; 4. How can a mind be sick?; SECTION 3 - A NEW KIND OF ETHICS; 5. Psychiatry and the law; 6. Understanding dementia: a hermeneutic perspective; SECTION 4 - A NEW KIND OF PSYCHOLOGY; 7. Meaning and causal explanations in the behavioural sciences; 8. Subjectivity and the possibility of psychiatry; 9. Form and content: the role of discourse in mental disorder; 10. Meaning and causes of delusions; SECTION 5 - A NEW KIND OF PHENOMENOLOGY; 11. The phenomenology of body dysmorphic disorder: a Sartrean analysis; 12. Putting the epoche into practice: schizophrenic experience as illustrating the phenomenological exploration of consciousness; 13. How can the phenomenological-anthropological approach contribute to diagnosis and classification in psychiatry?; 14. Incomprehensibility; SECTION 6 - A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE; 15. Anxiety - animal reactions and the embodiment of meaning; 16. Linguistic markers of recovery: semantic, syntactic and pragmatic changes in the use of first person pronouns in the course of psychotherapy; SECTION 7 - FUTURE POSSIBLE?; 17. Magic, science and equality of human wits...
