Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies The Psychopathology of Common Sense

by Stanghellini, Giovanni

• ISBN13: 9780198520887
• ISBN10: 0198520883
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This title includes the following features: Contains first person descriptions from sufferers of schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness, helping the reader to understand how they experience their illness; Provides an account of the phenomenological approach to psychopathology, giving thereader an essential tool for in-depth assessment of mental disorders; Analyses these disorders from both psychiatric and philosophical perspectives, providing an interdisciplinary examination of the mental lives of sufferers

Table of Contents

Prologue --- The tattooed room	1	(8)
Introduction	9	(16)
Studies
The genealogy of psychopathology	25	(20)
The origins of the psychopathology of the social being	45	(14)
The ascetic misunderstanding and social phenomenology	59	(12)
Aporias of intersubjectivity	71	(24)
The social world of melancholic and schizophrenic persons	95	(16)
The senses of common sense	111	(22)
The internal statue	133	(16)
Cyborgs and scanners	149	(12)
Voices and consciousness	161	(22)
This is not a delusion	183	(22)
References	205	(16)
Index	221