Philosophical Psychopathology

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Jerome Wakefield and His Critics

Edited by Luc Faucher and Denis Forest

by Harold Kincaid, Peter Zachar, Dominic Murphy, Justin Garson, Philip Gerrans, Rachel Cooper, Steeves Demazeux, Leen De Vreese, Maël Lemoine, Tim Thornton, Andreas De Block and Jonathan Sholl

ISBN: 9780262045643

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 16, 2021

Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as “harmful dysfunction,” with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.

Scaffolded Minds

Integration and Disintegration

by Somogy Varga

ISBN: 9780262042628

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 27, 2019

A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.

Real Hallucinations

Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World

by Matthew Ratcliffe

ISBN: 9780262036719

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 22, 2017

A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.

Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry

Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research

Edited by Jeffrey Poland and Şerife Tekin

ISBN: 9780262035484

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 13, 2017

Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.

The Ethical Treatment of Depression

Autonomy through Psychotherapy

by Paul Biegler

ISBN: 9780262015493

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 20, 2011

A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy.

A Metaphysics of Psychopathology

by Peter Zachar

ISBN: 9780262027045

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 28, 2014

An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis.

Brain Fiction

Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

by William Hirstein

ISBN: 9780262582711

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 11, 2006

Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate—to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth. A stroke victim, for example,...

Imagination and the Meaningful Brain

by Arnold H. Modell

ISBN: 9780262633437

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 11, 2006

The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works—how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell...