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Alien landscapes? : interpreting disordered minds /

Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles the hard cases--violent criminals, people with delusions, autism, schizophrenia--to answer affirmatively. He offers values linked with agency and identity to guide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glover, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Socratic questions in Broadmoor
  • The contours of a moral landscape
  • Childhood and after
  • Interpreting this landscape
  • Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor
  • Hopes for the future of psychiatry
  • "A skill so deeply hidden in the human soul"
  • Intuitive interpretation
  • Reflective interpretation
  • "A gulf which defies description"
  • Autism and interpretation
  • Interpreting delusions
  • Waking dreams
  • The need for boundaries
  • Personality and sexuality
  • Dysfunction?
  • Harm
  • What is autism?
  • Crossing the medical boundary?
  • Strands in a good human life
  • Brain, mind, and agency
  • Psychiatric conditions and the framework of responsibility
  • What is addiction?
  • Unwilling addiction as diminished control
  • Character, personality disorder, and responsibility
  • The sense of self
  • Moral identity and moral injury
  • Psychotherapy, autonomy, and self-creation
  • Entrapment in eating disorders
  • Authenticity and identity in eating disorders
  • Dementia, responsibility, and identity
  • Schizophrenia
  • Self-creation, values, and psychiatric disorder.