Reconceiving Schizophrenia

by Chung, Man Cheung; Fulford, Bill; Graham, George

• ISBN13: 9780191754340
• ISBN10: 019175434X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Man Cheung Chung, Reader of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit, School of Applied Psychosocial Studies, University of Plymouth,Bill Fulford, Department of Philosophy and the Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry,George Graham, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Faculty Neuroscience Institute, Georgie State University, Atlanta

Man Cheung Chung earned his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology at the University of Guelph, Canada, and PhD at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He worked as a Research Psychologist at University College London. He then took on a Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and subsequently held lectureships at the Universities of Wolverhampton and Sheffield. He is now a Reader in the Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit at the University of Plymouth. He is also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research interests include history and philosophy of psychology and health/clinical psychology. He has published over 100 articles and chapters in the foregoing areas as well as on other diverse topics.


Before joining the faculty of Wake Forest in 2003, Graham served for more than twenty-five years on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), including seventeen as philosophy department chair. Graham's research focuses on topics in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and psychiatry.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: on reconceiving schizophrenia, Man Cheung Chung, K W M Fulford & George Graham
2. They diagnosed me a schizophrenic when I was just a Gemini. 'The other side of madness', Colin King
3. Conceptions of schizophrenia, Man Cheung Chung
4. Explaining schizophrenia: the relevance of phenomenology, Louis Sass & Josef Parnas
5. Schizophrenic delusion and hallucination as the expression and consequence of an alteration of the existential a prioris, Alfred Kraus
6. Schizophrenia: a phenomenological-anthropological approach, Osborne P Wiggins & Michael A Schwartz
7. Schizophrenia and the sixth sense, Giovanni Stanghellini
8. The paralogisms of psychosis, Grant Gillett
9. How to move beyond the concept of schizophrenia, Jeffrey Poland
10. The delusional stance, G Lynn Stephens & George Graham
11. Against the belief model of delusion, Andy Hamilton
12. The clinician's illusion and benign psychosis, Mike Jackson
13. Defining persecutory paranoia, Jennifer Radden
14. The functions of delusional beliefs, Peter Kinderman & Richard P Bentall
15. The logical basis of psychiatric meta-narratives, Rom Harre
16. Suspicions of schizophrenia, Eric Matthews