| Description |
xi, 433 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-417) and index. |
| Contents |
"Antisocial personality" values, psychiatry -- Socratic questions in Broadmoor -- The contours of a moral landscape -- Childhood and after -- Interpreting this landscape: some problems -- Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor -- On human interpretation -- Hopes for the future of psychiatry -- "A skill so deeply hidden in the human soul" -- In shadow? human interpretation of people -- To find the mind's construction in the face -- Reflective interpretation -- Human interpretation in psychiatry -- "A gulf which defies description" -- "My world under glass" -- Interpreting delusions -- Waking dreams -- The dark side of the history of psychiatry -- Participation and collaboration -- Medicalizing social disapproval -- On the boundaries of psychiatry -- The disputed boundaries of psychiatry -- Dysfunction? -- Harm -- "Psychiatric" harm as an obstacle to human flourishing -- Autism: disorder or neurodiversity? -- Crossing the medical boundary? -- Strands in a good human life? -- Agency, control, and responsibility -- Brain, mind, and agency -- Psychiatric conditions and the framework of responsibility -- Behind the framework -- Pathologies affecting the capacity for action -- Distortions of motivation: what is addiction? -- Unwilling addiction as diminished control -- Character, "personality disorder," and responsibility -- Identity -- The sense of self -- Combat trauma: moral identity and moral injury -- Psychotherapy, autonomy, and self-creation -- Self-creation: horse and rider -- Entrapment in eating disorders -- Authenticity and identity in eating disorders -- Dementia, responsibility, and identity -- The person or the illness? schizophrenia -- Self-creation, values, and psychiatric disorder -- Epilogue. psychiatry and our depths. |
| Summary |
"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 is that the inner worlds of people with psychiatric disorders can seem strange, like alien landscapes, and this strangeness can deter attempts at understanding. Do people with disorders share enough psychology with other people to make interpretation possible? To explore this question, Glover tackles the hard cases--the inner worlds of hospitalized violent criminals, of people with delusions, and of those diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. Their first-person accounts offer glimpses of inner worlds behind apparently bizarre psychiatric conditions and allow us to begin to learn the "language" used to express psychiatric disturbance. Art by psychiatric patients, or by such complex figures as van Gogh and William Blake, give insight when interpreted from Glover's unique perspective. He also draws on dark chapters in psychiatry's past to show the importance of not medicalizing behavior that merely transgresses social norms. And finally, Glover suggests values, especially those linked with agency and identity, to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Psychiatry -- Decision making.
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Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
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Psychiatry.
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Mental Disorders.
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Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
(OCoLC)fst01016561
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Psychiatry -- Decision making.
(OCoLC)fst01081157
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Diagnose. (DE-588)4012040-5
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Entscheidung. (DE-588)4014904-3
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Interpretation. (DE-588)4072905-9
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Psychiatrie. (DE-588)4047667-4
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Psychische Störung. (DE-588)4047686-8
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| ISBN |
9780674368361 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0674368363 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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