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        Philosophical Psychopathology

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        Defining Mental Disorder

        Defining Mental Disorder

        Defining Mental Disorder

        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

        Scaffolded Minds

        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

        Real Hallucinations

        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

        Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry

        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

        The Ethical Treatment of Depression

        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

        A Metaphysics of Psychopathology

        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

        Brain Fiction

        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

        Imagination and the Meaningful Brain

        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...
        Disturbed Consciousness

        Disturbed Consciousness

        Disturbed Consciousness

        New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness

        Edited by Rocco J. Gennaro

        ISBN: 9780262029346

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 11, 2015

        Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
        Being Amoral

        Being Amoral

        Being Amoral

        Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity

        Edited by Thomas Schramme

        ISBN: 9780262027915

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 22, 2014

        Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency.
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