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"A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe universal human emotions Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people....
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An exposé of the psychiatric profession's bible from a leading psychotherapist, "The Book of Woe "reveals the deeply flawed process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented -- and why increasing numbers of therapy patients are being declared mentally ill.
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The MIT Press
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[2020]
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English
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"A groundbreaking, deeply personal, magnum opus on madness and philosophy from a psychotic patient turned philosopher"--
"In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis--and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness...
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Oxford University Press
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2008
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The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in suffering, loss of freedom and life opportunities, negative impacts on education, work satisfaction and productivity, complications in law, institutions of healthcare, and more. This book tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder.
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Oxford University Press
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[2022]
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Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. In 'Madness', philosopher of science Justin Garson presents a radically different paradigm for conceiving of madness and the forms that it takes. In this paradigm, which he calls madness-as-strategy, madness is neither a disease nor a defect, but a designed feature, like the heart or lungs.
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The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art is an art theory book that explores the collision of human madness and spiritual awakening in art. It examines a condition of insanity that can be, seen in most art movements throughout art history and contrasts that insanity with revelations of beauty, wonder and truth that can also be found in many works of art. The Awakening Artist references concepts of creativity put forward by Joseph...
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"In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion, partly social and psychological, partly judicial. In an historical analysis covering the period of approximately three centuries up to 1800, the author traces the changing pattern of social attitudes towards madness in Western European culture. Basing his study on extensive research into medical as well as theological thought, economics...
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"How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the deepest reaches of the self, including the state of madness. Marcel Gauchet and Gladys Swain maintain that the asylum originally embodied the revolutionary...
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Oxford University Press
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2022.
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"Mental illness is an issue of great practical importance. Yet, despite sustained inquiry from scientists and philosophers alike, relatively little attention has been paid to the significance of mental disorder to agency and responsibility. While there is some work that touches on the topic, and a few extended treatments of particular disorders, these only scratch the surface. 'Agency in Mental Disorder' seeks to provide a starting point for deeper...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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©2003
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"This book will be of interest to professionals and students in psychiatry as well as psychologists, social workers, philosophers, and general readers who are interested in understanding the field of psychiatry and its pratices at a conceptual level."--BOOK JACKET.
18) The dao of madness: mental illness and self-cultivation in early Chinese philosophy and medicine
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Oxford University Press
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[2021]
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English
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"Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics. Particularly for traditions and theories focused on self-cultivation, such as Aristotelian virtue ethics and many systems of ethics in early Chinese philosophy, mental illness offers powerful challenges. Can the mentally ill person cultivate herself and achieve a level of virtue, character, or thriving similar to the mentally healthy? Does mental illness result from failures...
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Plenum Press
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[1994]
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Neuropsychiatrist Mender introduces the theories of the philosophers who have shaped our basic view of the mind through the ages, assesses the impact their insights have had on modern neuropsychiatry, critically assesses the strengths and limitations of neuropsychiatry, and propounds an original theory of mental processes that can be applied to tho.