Ebook: Reconceiving schizophrenia
Author: Graham George, Fulford K. W. M., Chung Man Cheung
- Tags: Schizophrenia. Schizofrenie. Filosofische aspecten. Schizophrénie. Schizophrenie. PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia Delusions -- psychology. Schizophrenic Psychology. Medicine.
- Series: International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, Oxford
- Language: English
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Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. Though schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives, few attempts have been made to apply the tool kit of philosophy to schizophrenia, the mix of global analysis, conceptual insight, and argumentative clarity that Read more...
Abstract: Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. Though schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives, few attempts have been made to apply the tool kit of philosophy to schizophrenia, the mix of global analysis, conceptual insight, and argumentative clarity that is indicative of a philosophical perspective. This book is a major effort at redressing that imbalance. Recent developments in the area of philosophy known as the philosophy of psych