Philosophy and Psychopathology

Philosophy and psychopathology have more in common than philosophers, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists might think. Three fields of inquiry come to mind: (1) Questions about the scientific status of psychopatho­ logical statements and claims, (2) ethical questions, and (3) problems regarding...

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Other Authors: Spitzer, Manfred (Editor), Maher, Brendan A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1990, 1990
Edition:1st ed. 1990
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Why Philosophy?
  • Experience and its Disturbances
  • Toward a Husserlian Phenomenology of the Initial Stages of Schizophrenia
  • Concepts of Intentionality and Their Application to the Psychopathology of Schizophrenia—A Critique of the Vulnerability-Model
  • Kant on Schizophrenia
  • Are Psychotic Illnesses Category Disorders?—Proposal for a New Understanding and Classification of the Major Forms of Mental Illness
  • Rationality and Self
  • The Irrelevance of Rationality in Adaptive Behavior
  • Limits of Irrationality
  • Technical Problems with Teleological Explanation in Psychopathology: Sigmund Freud as a Case in Point
  • Self-Consciousness, I-Structures, and Physiology
  • When the Self Becomes Alien to Itself: Psychopathology and the Self Recursive Loop
  • Perception, Thought, and Schizophrenia
  • Verbal Hallucinations and Preconscious Mentality
  • Schizophrenia and the Quantification of Semantic Phenomena: How Can Something Mean Something?
  • Why Thinking is Easy
  • On the Development of Categories
  • Normality and Mental Illness—Dimensions Versus Categories: Methodological Considerations and Experimental Findings
  • Relevance of Transcendental Philosophy to the Foundations of Psychopathology
  • Final Comments and Reflections
  • Synopsis and Critical Remarks
  • Name Index