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9780713992496

Madness Explained Psychosis and Human Nature

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    9780713992496

  • ISBN10:

    0713992492

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-09-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Global
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements x
Foreword xi
Professor Aaron Beck
Author's Preface xiii
Part One The Origins of our Misunderstandings about Madness
Emil Kraepelin's Big Idea
3(16)
The origins of modern psychiatric theory
After Kraepelin
19(22)
How the standard approach to psychiatric classification evolved
The Great Classification Crisis
41(26)
How it was discovered that the standard system was scientifically meaningless
Fool's Gold
67(28)
Why psychiatric diagnoses do not work
The Boundaries of Madness
95(23)
Why there is no boundary between sanity and madness
Them and Us
118(31)
Modern psychiatry as a cultural system
Part Two A Better Picture of the Soul
The Significance of Biology
149(30)
Psychosis, the brain and the concept of `disease'
Mental Life and Human Nature
179(26)
Madness and the social brain
Madness and Emotion
205(28)
Human emotions and the negative symptoms of psychosis
Part Three Some Madnesses Explained
Depression and the Pathology of Self
233(37)
Core psychological processes that are important in severe mental illness
A Colourful Malady
270(23)
The psychology of mania
Abnormal Attitudes
293(37)
The psychology of delusional beliefs
On the Paranoid World View
330(17)
Towards a unified theory of depression, mania and paranoia
The Illusion of Reality
347(31)
The psychology of hallucinations
The Language of Madness
378(27)
The communication difficulties of psychotic patients
Part Four Causes and their Effects
Things are Much More Complex than they Seem
405(31)
The instability of psychosis, and the solution to the riddle of psychiatric classification
From the Cradle to the Clinic
436(28)
Psychosis considered from a developmental perspective
The Trials of Life
464(30)
How life experiences shape madness
Madness and Society
494(19)
Some implications of post-Kraepelinian psychopathology
Appendix A Glossary of Technical and Scientific Terms 513(14)
Notes 527(96)
Index 623

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