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Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis

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Authors:
  1. Yehuda Fried
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  2. Joseph Agassi
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 50)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction: The Paradoxes of Paranoia

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 1-8

  3. Psychological Background

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 9-19

  4. Sociological Background

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 20-28

  5. Methodological Background

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 29-39

  6. Metaphysical Background

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 40-51

  7. The Paradoxes of Paranoia Revisited

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 52-60

  8. Paranoia as a Fixation of an Abstract System

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 61-74

  9. Clinical Matters

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 75-98

  10. Conclusion Towards a General Demarcation of Psychopathology

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 99-106

  11. Postscript

    • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 107-107

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 108-218
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There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par­ ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non­ rational or irrational, or from the untestable or the empirically meaningless. In psychiatric theory, the demarcation question appears as a problem of distinguishing the sane from the insane, the well from the mentally ill. The parallelism is interesting when the criteria for what fails to be scientific are seen to be congruent with the criteria which define those psychoses which are marked by cognitive failure. In this book Dr Yehuda Fried and Professor Joseph Agassi - a practicing psychiatrist and a philosopher of science, respectivel- focus on an extreme case of psychosis - paranoia - as an essentially intellectual disorder: that is, as one in which there is a systematic and chronic delusion which is sustained by logical means. They write: "Paranoia is an extreme case by the very fact that paranoia is by definition a quirk of the intellectual apparatus, a logical delusion. " (p. 2.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis

  • Authors: Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1506-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1976

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0704-8Published: 31 December 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0705-5Published: 31 December 1976

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1506-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 218

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Psychiatry

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