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Philosophy and Psychopathology

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Manfred Spitzer

    1. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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  2. Brendan A. Maher

    1. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why Philosophy?

      • Manfred Spitzer
      Pages 3-18

  5. Perception, Thought and Schizophrenia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Verbal Hallucinations and Pre-Conscious Mentality

      • Julian Jaynes
      Pages 159-170

    3. Schizophrenia and the Quantification of Semantic Phenomena: How can Something Mean Something?

      • Hinderk M. Emrich
      Pages 171-177

    4. Why Thinking is Easy

      • Steven Matthysse
      Pages 178-186

    5. On the Development of Categories

      • Peter Klein
      Pages 187-199

    6. Normality and Mental Illness—Dimensions Versus Categories: Theoretical Considerations and Experimental Findings

      • Godehard Oepen, Anne Harrington, Matthias Fünfgeld
      Pages 200-210
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About this book

Philosophy and psychopathology have more in common than philosophers, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists might think. Three fields of inquiry come to mind: (1) Questions about the scientific status of psychopatho­ logical statements and claims, (2) ethical questions, and (3) problems regarding the question of how to account for something like a disordered mind. While the first two domains have frequently been addressed in articles and debates (think of the mind-body problem and the problem of institutionalization versus self-determination as examples of issues in the two fields), the question of how the mind should be conceived in order for psychopathology to work best has seldom been discussed. The present volume focuses on this question. Perception, thought, affect, will, and the like are terms which made their way from philosophy into psychology, and into present psychiatry, where disturbances of these "faculties" or "functions" are believed to form the most basic part of symptomatology. While these terms and many others that are used to refer to symptoms of mental disorder (such as "self', "consciousness", "drive", and "identity") may seem to be purely descriptive and theoretically "innocent", they are packed with implicit assumptions, theoretical concepts, and sometimes dogmatic postulates.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Manfred Spitzer, Brendan A. Maher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy and Psychopathology

  • Editors: Manfred Spitzer, Brendan A. Maher

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9028-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97303-6Published: 23 May 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9028-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 247

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Philosophy, general

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