Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The Psychopathology of Common SenseHow can we better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses? This important new book takes us into the world of those suffering from such disorders. Using self descriptions, its emphasis is not on how mental health professionals view sufferers, but on how the patients themselves experience their disorder. Central to the book is the idea that schizophrenic persons live like disembodied spirits or deanimated bodies. As disembodied spirits, they feel like abstract entities which contemplate their own existence and the world from outside. As deanimated bodies, schizophrenic people feel deprived of the possibility of living personal experiences - perceptions, thoughts, emotions - as their own. A new volume in the International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series, this book will be of great interest to all those working with sufferers from such disorders - helping them to better understand their mental lives and providing important insights into how best to treat them. |
Contents
Prologue The tattooed room | 1 |
Introduction | 9 |
The genealogy of psychopathology | 25 |
The origins of the psychopathology of the social being | 45 |
The ascetic misunderstanding and social phenomenology | 59 |
Aporias of intersubjectivity | 71 |
The social world of melancholic and schizophrenic persons | 95 |
The senses of common sense | 111 |
The internal statue | 133 |
Cyborgs and scanners | 149 |
Voices and consciousness | 161 |
This is not a delusion | 183 |
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