Disembodied Spirits And Deanimated Bodies

Author : Giovanni Stanghellini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198520891

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Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies by Giovanni Stanghellini Pdf

How can we better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses? This important new book takes us into the world of those suffering from such disorders. Using self-descriptions, its emphasis is not on how mental health professional's view sufferers, but on how the patients themselves experience their disorder. Central to the book is the idea that schizophrenic persons live like disembodies spirits or deanimated bodies. As disembodies spirits, they feel like abstract entities that contemplate their own existence and the world from outside. As deanimated bodies, schizophrenic people feel deprived of the possibility of living personal experiences - perceptions, thoughts, emotions - as their own. A new volume in the International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series, this book will be of great interest to all those working with sufferers from such disorders - helping them to better understand their mental lives and providing important insights into how best to treat them.

Author : Tarik Bel-Bahar
Publisher : Schattauer Verlag
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Body Image
ISBN : 9783794527915

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The Embodied Self by Tarik Bel-Bahar Pdf

Author : Man Cheung Chung,K. W. M. Fulford,Bill Fulford,George Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198526131

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Reconceiving Schizophrenia by Man Cheung Chung,K. W. M. Fulford,Bill Fulford,George Graham Pdf

Schizophrenia has been investigated predominantly from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives. This text examines it from a philosophical point of view.

Author : Basant K Puri,Roger Ho,Ian Treasden
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781444118643

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Revision MCQs and EMIs for the MRCPsych by Basant K Puri,Roger Ho,Ian Treasden Pdf

This new revision guide with over 1500 questions, reasoned answers and links to explanatory text gives a comprehensive range of multiple choice questions (MCQs) and extended matching items (EMIs). Complete with sample papers, this book provides everything you need for the written parts of the MRCPsych and comparable higher postgraduate examinations in psychiatry. Contains over 550 MCQs and 350 EMIs divided into syllabus topics Includes full-length sample exam papers for Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the MRCPsych Challenging questions written to bring out key learning points Full, detailed answers and links to revision and remediation Prepared by experienced teachers and writers of examination questions This book is essential for all psychiatrists preparing for the written MRCPsych and similar examinations, allowing candidates to approach the exam with confidence.

Author : Andrew Gaedtke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418003

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Modernism and the Machinery of Madness by Andrew Gaedtke Pdf

This book shows that a distinct form of technological madness emerged within modernist culture, transforming much of the period's experimental fiction.

Author : Burt C. Hopkins,Daniele De Santis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000953749

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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy by Burt C. Hopkins,Daniele De Santis Pdf

Volume XXI Special Issue, 2023 Part 1: Phenomenological Perspectives on Aesthetics and Art Part 2: Heidegger and Contemporary French Philosophy Aim and Scope: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl’s groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Reinach, Scheler, Stein, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer. Contributors: Liliana Albertazzi, Dimitris Apostolopoulos, Gabriele Baratelli, Anna Irene Baka, Irene Breuer, John Brough, Peer Bundgaard, Justin Clemens, Richard Colledge, Bryan Cooke, Françoise Dastur, Ivo De Gennaro, Natalie Depraz, Helena De Preester, Daniele De Santis, Madalina Diaconu, Arto Haapala, Robyn Horner, Erik Kuravsky, Donald Landes, Elisa Magri, Michelle Maiese, Regina-Nino Mion, Brian O’Connor, Costas Pagondiotis, Knox Peden, Constantinos Picolas, Hans Reiner Sepp, Jack Reynolds, Jon Roffe, Claude Romano, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Michela Summa, Panos Theodorou, Fotini Vassiliou, and Sanem Yazicioglu. Submissions: Manuscripts, prepared for blind review, should be submitted to the Editors ([email protected] and [email protected]) electronically via e-mail attachments.

Author : K. Morris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230248519

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Sartre on the Body by K. Morris Pdf

Sartre scholars and others engage with Jean-Paul Sartre's descriptions of the human body, bringing him into dialogue with feminists, sociologists, psychologists and historians and asking: What is pain? Do men and women experience their bodies differently? How do society and culture shape our bodies? Can we re-shape them?

Author : Michelle Maiese,Robert Hanna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030195465

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The Mind-Body Politic by Michelle Maiese,Robert Hanna Pdf

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency. Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape the minds of all those who belong to them, for better or worse, usually without their being self-consciously aware of it. Indeed, in contemporary neoliberal societies, it is generally for the worse. In The Mind-Body Politic, Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna work out a new critique of contemporary social institutions by deploying the special standpoint of the philosophy of mind—in particular, the special standpoint of the philosophy of what they call essentially embodied minds—and make a set of concrete, positive proposals for radically changing both these social institutions and also our essentially embodied lives for the better.

Author : Giovanna Colombetti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262533768

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The Feeling Body by Giovanna Colombetti Pdf

A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science. In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science—the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She argues that enactivism entails a view of cognition as not just embodied but also intrinsically affective, and she elaborates on the implications of this claim for the study of emotion in psychology and neuroscience. In the course of her discussion, Colombetti focuses on long-debated issues in affective science, including the notion of basic emotions, the nature of appraisal and its relationship to bodily arousal, the place of bodily feelings in emotion experience, the neurophysiological study of emotion experience, and the bodily nature of our encounters with others. Drawing on enactivist tools such as dynamical systems theory, the notion of the lived body, neurophenomenology, and phenomenological accounts of empathy, Colombetti advances a novel approach to these traditional issues that does justice to their complexity. Doing so, she also expands the enactive approach into a further domain of inquiry, one that has more generally been neglected by the embodied-embedded approach in the philosophy of cognitive science.

Author : Christian Tewes,Giovanni Stanghellini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108489355

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Time and Body by Christian Tewes,Giovanni Stanghellini Pdf

This book advances the development of phenomenological psychopathology and demonstrates its applicability to a spectrum of mental disorders.

Author : Eric Matthews
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191584602

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Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds by Eric Matthews Pdf

How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine. The controversy over the nature of mental disorder and the appropriateness of the "medical model" is not just an abstract theoretical debate: it has a bearing on very practical issues of appropriate treatment, as well as on psychiatric ethics and law. A major contention of this book is that these questions are ultimately philosophical in character: they can be resolved only if we abandon some widespread philosophical assumptions about the "mind" and the "body", and about what it means for medicine to be "scientific". The "phenomenological" approach of the twentieth-century French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty is used to question these assumptions. His conception of human beings as "body-subjects" is argued to provide a more illuminating way of thinking about mental disorder and the ways in which it can be understood and treated. The conditions we conventionally call "mental disorders" are, it is argued, not a homogeneous group: the standard interpretation of the medical model fits some more readily than others. The core mental disorders, however, are best regarded as disturbed ways of being in the world, which cause unhappiness because of deviation from "human" rather than straightforwardly "biological" norms. That is, they are problems in how we experience the world and especially other people, rather than in physiological functioning - even though the nature of our experience cannot ultimately be separated from the ways in which our bodies function. This analysis is applied within the book both to issues in clinical treatment and to the special ethical and legal questions of psychiatry. Written by a well known philosopher in an accessible and clear style, this book should be of interest to a wide range of readers, from psychiatrists to social workers, lawyers, ethicists, philosophers and anyone with an interest in mental health.

Author : Michelle Maiese
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199689231

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Embodied Selves and Divided Minds by Michelle Maiese Pdf

This text examines how research in embodied cognition and enactivism can contribute to our understanding of the nature of self-consciousness, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the disruptions to self-awareness that occur in cases of psychopathology.

Author : Max Liljefors,Susanne Lundin,Andréa Wiszmeg
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789187121937

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The Atomized Body by Max Liljefors,Susanne Lundin,Andréa Wiszmeg Pdf

Referring to the focus of the biosciences on molecular "particles" of the human biology, such as stem cells, genes, and neurons, this account examines the relationships between culture, society, and bioscientific research. Showing that the atomized body is indeed socially and culturally embedded, in plural and complex ways, it argues that biomedicine and biotechnology do not only intersect with the human body, but also reshape our perceptions of selfhood and life. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume explores the biosciences and the atomized body in their social, cultural, and philosophical contexts.

Author : KWM Fulford,Martin Davies,Richard Gipps,George Graham,John Sadler,Giovanni Stanghellini,Tim Thornton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191666803

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry by KWM Fulford,Martin Davies,Richard Gipps,George Graham,John Sadler,Giovanni Stanghellini,Tim Thornton Pdf

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area ever published. It assembles challenging and insightful contributions from key philosophers and others to the interactive fields of philosophy and psychiatry. Each contributions is original, stimulating, thorough, and clearly and engagingly written - with no potentially significant philosophical stone left unturned. Broad in scope, the book includes coverage of several areas of philosophy, including philosophy of mind, science, and ethics. For philosophers and psychiatrists, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry is a landmark publication in the field - one that will be of value to both students and researchers in this rapidly growing area.

Author : Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191090516

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Madness and the demand for recognition by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed Pdf

Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is synonymous with unreason and violence, for others with creativity and subversion, elsewhere it is associated with spirits and spirituality. Among the different formulations, there is one in particular that has taken hold so deeply and systematically that it has become the default view in many communities around the world: the idea that madness is a disorder of the mind. Contemporary developments in mental health activism pose a radical challenge to psychiatric and societal understandings of madness. Mad Pride and mad-positive activism reject the language of mental 'illness' and 'disorder', reclaim the term 'mad', and reverse its negative connotations. Activists seek cultural change in the way madness is viewed, and demand recognition of madness as grounds for identity. But can madness constitute such grounds? Is it possible to reconcile delusions, passivity phenomena, and the discontinuity of self often seen in mental health conditions with the requirements for identity formation presupposed by the theory of recognition? How should society respond? Guided by these questions, this book is the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the claims and demands of Mad activism. Locating itself in the philosophy of psychiatry, Mad studies, and activist literatures, the book develops a rich theoretical framework for understanding, justifying, and responding to Mad activism's demand for recognition.