Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Just Getting Started
- Mind and Madness: New Directions in the Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Emotion and Memory: The Second Cognitive Revolution
- Meaning and Mechanism in Psychotherapy and General Psychiatry
- Making Sense on the Boundaries: On Moving Between Philosophy and Psychotherapy
- Mental Disorder, Illness and Biological Disfunction
- Integrity, Boundary and the Ecology of Personal Processes
- Multiple Personality and Computational Models
- Psychology and Politics: Lies, Damned Lies and Self-Deception
- Personal Identity and Psychiatric Illness
- Vices and the Self
- Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: Legal Insanity and the Finding of Fault
- Dangerousness and Mental Disorder
- Problems with the Doctrine of Consent
- Homosexuality
- Nietzsche and Music
- References
- Notes on Contributors
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Just Getting Started
- Mind and Madness: New Directions in the Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Emotion and Memory: The Second Cognitive Revolution
- Meaning and Mechanism in Psychotherapy and General Psychiatry
- Making Sense on the Boundaries: On Moving Between Philosophy and Psychotherapy
- Mental Disorder, Illness and Biological Disfunction
- Integrity, Boundary and the Ecology of Personal Processes
- Multiple Personality and Computational Models
- Psychology and Politics: Lies, Damned Lies and Self-Deception
- Personal Identity and Psychiatric Illness
- Vices and the Self
- Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: Legal Insanity and the Finding of Fault
- Dangerousness and Mental Disorder
- Problems with the Doctrine of Consent
- Homosexuality
- Nietzsche and Music
- References
- Notes on Contributors
Summary
There can be no exploitative competitors in the practice of philosophy. In the primitive communist world of science and the arts, the achievement of each—whatever the accidental rewards of laurel wreathes and royalties—is essentially the enhancement of all. The same is true of that world's institutions, and explicitly of the aims of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 1‘to promote the study and discussion of philosophy and original work in it’. It was in the furtherance of this aim that the Institue devoted its lecture series of 1983-4 to marking the advent of The Society for Applied Philosophy and of its then new journal; and that of 1993—4 to marking the advent of the new Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry, promoted by the Philosophy Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
This volume is based on the resulting lectures, and we are grateful to K. W. M. Fulford, Rom Harré and Tony Hope for their advice in planning the programme.
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- Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995