Alien Landscapes? : : Interpreting Disordered Minds /

Alien Landscapes? : : Interpreting Disordered Minds / / Jonathan Glover.

We have made huge progress in understanding the biology of mental illnesses, but comparatively little in interpreting them at the psychological level. The eminent philosopher Jonathan Glover believes that there is real hope of progress in the human interpretation of disordered minds. The challenge i...

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Glover, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 27 color illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue: Alien Landscapes?
  • Part One: "Antisocial Personality," Values, Psychiatry
  • Socratic Questions in Broadmoor
  • The Contours of a Moral Landscape
  • Childhood and After
  • Interpreting This Landscape
  • Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor
  • Part Two: On Human Interpretation
  • Hopes for the Future of Psychiatry
  • "A Skill So Deeply Hidden in the Human Soul"
  • Intuitive Interpretation
  • Reflective Interpretation
  • Part Three: Human Interpretation in Psychiatry
  • "A Gulf Which Defies Description"
  • Autism and Interpretation
  • Interpreting Delusions
  • Waking Dreams
  • Part Four: The Boundaries of Psychiatry
  • The Need for Boundaries
  • Personality and Sexuality
  • Dysfunction?
  • Harm
  • What Is Autism?
  • Crossing the Medical Boundary?
  • Strands in a Good Human Life
  • Part Five: Agency, Control, and Responsibility
  • Brain, Mind, and Agency
  • Psychiatric Conditions and the Framework of Responsibility
  • What Is Addiction?
  • Unwilling Addiction as Diminished Control
  • Character, Personality Disorder, and Responsibility
  • Part Six: Identity
  • The Sense of Self
  • Moral Identity and Moral Injury
  • Psychotherapy, Autonomy, and Self-Creation
  • Entrapment in Eating Disorders
  • Authenticity and Identity in Eating Disorders
  • Dementia, Responsibility, and Identity
  • Schizophrenia
  • Self-Creation, Values, and Psychiatric Disorder
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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