Madness Explained Psychosis and Human Nature

by Bentall, Richard P.

• ISBN13: 9780713992496
• ISBN10: 0713992492
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin Global

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