Autonomy and Mental Disorder

by Radoilska, Lubomira

• ISBN13: 9780199595426
• ISBN10: 0199595429
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The concept of autonomy is highly relevant to medical ethics and mental health. The autonomy of an individual can be affected by certain mental disorders, with implications for how we treat them (or even forcefully treat them), or ascribe blame for events they bring about. Autonomy and Mental Disorder identifies and explores some underlying connections between the concepts of autonomy, decisional capacity, and mental disorder. It brings togetherphilosophers and psychiatrists focusing on cases where autonomy is deemed to have broken down. Some of the questions that authors address include: does the notion of capacity necessarily involve some evaluative components? How does it relate to the notion of autonomy? What are the defining features of mentaldisorder? Should they comprise distress and diminished control over one's actions? Could philosophical conceptions of autonomy account for psychiatric cases in which autonomy is deemed to be compromised? Would the standard distinction between moral and personal autonomy be applicable? Autonomy and Mental Disorder will be of interest to psychiatrists, philosophers, and forensic psychologists.

Author Biography

Lubomira Radoilska is Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge University and Research Associate of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University. She is the author of Aristotle and the Moral Philosophy of Today (2007).

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Introduction: personal autonomy, decisional capacity, and mental disorder	p. ix
Mapping the conceptual landscape
Mental disorder and the value(s) of æautonomy'	p. 3
Autonomy and neuroscience	p. 26
Three challenges from delusion for theories of autonomy	p. 44
Autonomy in light of mental disorder
Does mental disorder involve loss of personal autonomy?	p. 77
Rationality and self-knowledge in delusion and confabulation: implications for autonomy as self-governance	p. 100
Privacy and patient autonomy in mental healthcare	p. 123
Rethinking capacity and respect for autonomy
Clarifying capacity: value and reasons	p. 145
The Mental Capacity Act and conceptions of the good	p. 170
Autonomy, value, and the first person	p. 192
Emerging alternatives
Autonomy, dialogue, and practical rationality	p. 217
How do I learn to be me again? Autonomy, life skills, and identity	p. 233
Autonomy and Ulysses arrangements	p. 252
Index	p. 281
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