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Alien landscapes?, interpreting disordered minds, Jonathan Glover

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Alien landscapes?, interpreting disordered minds, Jonathan Glover
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Alien landscapes?
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Jonathan Glover
Sub title
interpreting disordered minds
Table Of 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 -- Hopesfor 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
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