Nature and Narrative An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry

by Fulford, Bill; Morris, Katherine; Sadler, John; Stanghellini, Giovanni

• ISBN13: 9780198526117
• ISBN10: 0198526113
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Nature and Narrative is the launch volume in a new series of books entitled International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. The series will aim to build links between the sciences and humanities in psychiatry. Our ability to decipher mental disorders depends to a unique extent on both the sciences and the humanities, science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', and the humanities provides insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. Psychiatry, if it to develop as a balanced discipline, must draw on input from both of these spheres. Nature(for causes) and Narrative(for meanings) will help define the series as a whole by touching on range of issues relevant to this 'border country'. With contributions form an international star-studded cast, representing the field of psychiatry, psychology and philosophy, this volume will set the scene for this new interdisciplinary field. This will be of interest to all members of the mental health team as well as to philosophers, social scientists, and bioethicists.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xiii
Past improbable, future possible: the renaissance in philosophy and psychiatry	1	(42)
K. W. M. (Bill) Fulford
Katherine J. Morris
John Z. Sadler
Giovanni Stanghellini
Section 1 Recycling History?
Towards a psyche for psychiatry	43	(14)
Russell Meares
Section 2 A New Kind of Philosophy
Wittgenstein's method and psychoanalysis	57	(18)
Gordon Baker
How can a mind be sick?	75	(18)
Eric Matthews
Section 3 A New Kind of Ethics
Psychiatry and law	93	(10)
Daniel N. Robinson
Understanding dementia: a hermeneutic perspective	103	(10)
Guy A. M. Widdershoven
Ineke Widdershoven-Heerding
Section 4 A New Kind of Psychology
Meaning and causal explanations in the behavioural sciences	113	(14)
Derek Bolton
Subjectivity and the possibility of psychiatry	127	(12)
Rom Harre
Form and content: the role of discourse in mental disorder	139	(16)
Grant Gillett
Meaning and causes of delusions	155	(16)
Michael Musalek
Section 5 A New Kind of Phenomenology
The phenomenology of body dysmorphic disorder: a Sartrean analysis	171	(16)
Katherine J. Morris
Putting the epoche into practice: schizophrenic experience as illustrating the phenomenological exploration of consciousness	187	(12)
Natalie Depraz
How can the phenomenological-anthropological approach contribute to diagnosis and classification in psychiatry?	199	(18)
Alfred Kraus
Incomprehensibility	217	(14)
Markus Heinimaa
Section 6 A New Kind of Science
Anxiety --- animal reactions and the embodiment of meaning	231	(20)
Gerrit Glas
Linguistic markers of recovery: semantic and syntactic changes in the use of first person pronouns in the course of psychotherapy	251	(12)
Werdie (C. W.) van Staden
Christa Kruger
Section 7 Future Possible?
Magic, science, and the equality of human wits	263	(12)
Paolo Rossi
Index	275