The mind and its discontents: an essay in discursive psychiatry/

Gillett, Grant

The mind and its discontents: an essay in discursive psychiatry/ Grant Gillett. - 2nd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xvi, 432 p. 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-414) and index.

1. Mind, brain, and psychiatry --
2. Categorization and stigmatization --
3. The treatment of aliens --
4. The depths of the self --
5. Thought in disarray --
6. The black dog and the muse --
7. Fidgets --
8. I and the other robots --
9. Moral insanity and evil --
10. 'My name is Legion, for we are many' --
11. I eat, therefore I am not --
12. The meaning of hysteria --
13. The pathologies of each are the pathologies of all --
14. Concluding autobiographical postscript.

9780199237548


Psychiatry--Philosophy.
Mental illness.
Philosophy of mind.

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