Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies The Psychopathology of Common Sense

by Stanghellini, Giovanni

• ISBN13: 9780198520894
• ISBN10: 0198520891
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

How can we better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses? This important new book takes us into the world of those suffering from such disorders. Using self-descriptions, its emphasis is not on how mental health professional's view sufferers, but on how the patients themselves experience their disorder. Central to the book is the idea that schizophrenic persons live like disembodies spirits or deanimated bodies. As disembodies spirits, they feel like abstract entities that contemplate their own existence and the world from outside. As deanimated bodies, schizophrenic people feel deprived of the possibility of living personal experiences - perceptions, thoughts, emotions - as their own. A new volume in the International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series, this book will be of great interest to all those working with sufferers from such disorders - helping them to better understand their mental lives and providing important insights into how best to treat them.

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