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Author:   Bill Fulford (, Department of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick, UK) ,  Katherine Morris (, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK) ,  John Z. Sadler (, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Dallas, USA) ,  Giovanni Stanghellini (, Department of Mental Health, University of Florence, Italy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.497kg
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9780198526117

ISBN 10:   0198526113
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   15 May 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Fulford, Morris, Sadler and Stanghellini: Past improbable, future possible: the renaissance in philosophy and psychiatry Section 1 - Recycling History? 2: Meares - Australia: Towards a psyche for psychiatry Section 2 - A New Kind of Philosophy 3: Baker - UK: Wittgenstein's method and psychoanalysis 4: Matthews - UK: How can a mind be sick? Section 3 - A New Kind of Ethics 5: Robinson - USA: Psychiatry and the law 6: Widdershoven - The Netherlands: Understanding dementia: a hermeneutic perspective Section 4 - A New Kind of Psychology 7: Bolton - UK: Meaning and causal explanations in the behavioural sciences 8: Harre - UK: Subjectivity and the possibility of psychiatry 9: Gillett - New Zealand: Form and content: the role of discourse in mental disorder 10: Musalek - Austria: Meaning and causes of delusions Section 5 - A New Kind of Phenomenology 11: Morris - UK: The phenomenology of body dysmorphic disorder: a Sartrean analysis 12: Depraz - France: Putting the epoche into practice: schizophrenic experience as illustrating the phenomenological exploration of consciousness 13: Kraus - Germany: How can the phenomenological-anthropological approach contribute to diagnosis and classification in psychiatry? 14: Heinimaa - Finland: Incomprehensibility Section 6 - A New Kind of Science 15: Glas - The Netherlands: Anxiety - animal reactions and the embodiment of meaning 16: van Staden - South Africa: 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: Rossi - Italy: Magic, science and equality of human wits

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This is a challenging and fascinating work. It offers the start of a conversation about the peril of taking issues of meaning for granted in psychiatry and does so in a manner that manifests the potential wealth in an ever broadening dialogue of biological and cultural science and the humanities. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorder, Vol 194, No 1 As might be expected, this book is full of ideas, vibrant with rhetoric and debate, and always lively. Philosophy is like argument, most of all with each other, and argument is almost their evidence base ... It all makes for an excellent read ... What is clear from this book is that philosophy is clearly on its way back into psychiatry and cannot be ignored. This is but the first of a series on international perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry and my prediction is that philosophy will continue to be ... part of empirical psychiatry. JNNP ... 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. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 11, No 5-6

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