Reconceiving schizophrenia / edited by Man Cheung Chung, K. W. M. (Bill) Fulford and George Graham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chung, Man Cheung, 1962-

Fulford, K. W. M.

Graham, George, 1945-

Series:

International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizophrenia.

Delusions--psychology.

Schizophrenic Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Schizophrenia.

Delusions--psychology.

Schizophrenic Psychology.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: on reconceiving of schizophrenia / Man Cheung Chung, K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford, and George Graham

They diagnosed me a schizophrenic when I was just a Gemini: 'the other side of madness' / Colin King

Conceptions of schizophrenia / Man Cheung Chung

Explaining schizophrenia: the relevance of phenomenology / Louis A. Sass and Josef Parnas

Schizophrenic delusion and hallucination as the expression and consequence of an alteration of the existential a prioris / Alfred Kraus

Schizophrenia: a phenomenological-anthropological approach / Osborne P. Wiggins and Michael A. Schwartz

Schizophrenia and the sixth sense / Giovanni Stanghellini

The paralogisms of psychosis / Grant Gillett

How to move beyond the concept of schizophrenia / Jeffrey Poland

The delusional stance / G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham

Against the belief model of delusion / Andy Hamilton

The clinician's illusion and benign psychosis / Mike Jackson

Defining persecutory paranoia / Jennifer Radden

The functions of delusional beliefs / Peter Kinderman and Richard P. Bentall

The logical basis of meta-narratives / Rom Harré

Suspicions of schizophrenia / Eric Matthews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019852613X

9780198526131

OCLC:

70663715

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