Philosophy and Psychopathology

Philosophy and Psychopathology edited by Manfred Spitzer, Brendan A. Maher.

Philosophy and psychopathology have more in common than philosophers, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists might think. Three fields of inquiry come to mind: (1) Questions about the scientific status of psychopatho­ logical statements and claims, (2) ethical questions, and (3) problems regarding...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Spitzer, Manfred (Editor), Maher, Brendan A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1990.
Edition:1st ed. 1990.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Clinical psychology.
Psychiatry.
Philosophy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Why Philosophy?
  • Experience and its Disturbances
  • Toward a Husserlian Phenomenology of the Initial Stages of Schizophrenia
  • Concepts of Intentionality and Their Application to the Psychopathology of Schizophrenia—A Critique of the Vulnerability-Model
  • Kant on Schizophrenia
  • Are Psychotic Illnesses Category Disorders?—Proposal for a New Understanding and Classification of the Major Forms of Mental Illness
  • Rationality and Self
  • The Irrelevance of Rationality in Adaptive Behavior
  • Limits of Irrationality
  • Technical Problems with Teleological Explanation in Psychopathology: Sigmund Freud as a Case in Point
  • Self-Consciousness, I-Structures, and Physiology
  • When the Self Becomes Alien to Itself: Psychopathology and the Self Recursive Loop
  • Perception, Thought, and Schizophrenia
  • Verbal Hallucinations and Preconscious Mentality
  • Schizophrenia and the Quantification of Semantic Phenomena: How Can Something Mean Something?
  • Why Thinking is Easy
  • On the Development of Categories
  • Normality and Mental Illness—Dimensions Versus Categories: Methodological Considerations and Experimental Findings
  • Relevance of Transcendental Philosophy to the Foundations of Psychopathology
  • Final Comments and Reflections
  • Synopsis and Critical Remarks
  • Name Index.

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