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This is a valuable review of philosophical approaches to mental illness that is both clear and critical. The respectful approach to persons is increasingly important when our media presents stories of situations in which failures in our mental health system have led to tragedy. --Doody's, a 5 starreview Matthews here presents a clear and readable exposition of the current philosophical debates and dilemmas within psychiatry...Matthews draws on real examples and concerns throughout, gained through close contact with clinicians, revealing a sound understanding of the applicability of his ideas. --Mental Health Today Digest A fascinating look at the subject of mental disorder in the context of phenomenology, Body-subjects and Disordered Minds makes a unique and indispensable contribution to philosophical literature. --Metapsychology

This is a valuable review of philosophical approaches to mental illness that is both clear and critical. The respectful approach to persons is increasingly important when our media presents stories of situations in which failures in our mental health system have led to tragedy. --Doody's, a 5 star review Matthews here presents a clear and readable exposition of the current philosophical debates and dilemmas within psychiatry...Matthews draws on real examples and concerns throughout, gained through close contact with clinicians, revealing a sound understanding of the applicability of his ideas. --Mental Health Today Digest A fascinating look at the subject of mental disorder in the context of phenomenology, Body-subjects and Disordered Minds makes a unique and indispensable contribution to philosophical literature. --Metapsychology

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Eric Matthews was born in Liverpool in 1936. He studied philosophy, both as an undergraduate and a postgraduate, at St John's College, Oxford, from 1957 to 1963, where he was taught by Paul Grice, Gilbert Ryle, and A.J. Ayer. He then taught philosophy for almost forty years at the University of Aberdeen, apart from visiting posts at the University of New Orleans and at the College of Wooster, Ohio, U.S.A. He has a longstanding interest in the philosophical and ethical problems arising from psychiatry: he is a member of the National Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Special Interest Group and was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. In 2002, he retired from a Personal Chair of Philosophy at Aberdeen, and is now Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of Medical and Psychiatric Ethics at the University.

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