Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis
There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par ticular, from metaphysics, from p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1976, 1976
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1976 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Paradoxes of Paranoia
- 2. Psychological Background
- 3. Sociological Background
- 4. Methodological Background
- 5. Metaphysical Background
- 6. The Paradoxes of Paranoia Revisited
- 7. Paranoia as a Fixation of an Abstract System
- 8. Clinical Matters
- Appendix I: Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia
- Appendix II: Freud’s View of Neurosis and Psychosis
- 9. Conclusion: Towards a General Demarcation of Psychopathology
- Postscript
- Notes
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index of Names