Body-subjects and disordered minds
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書誌事項
Body-subjects and disordered minds
（International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry / edited by Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford ... [et al.]）
Oxford University Press, 2007
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-185) and index
収録内容
- Introducing the problem
- Illness and disease
- 'Minds' and 'bodies'
- Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty
- The body-subject and mental disorder
- Mental disorder and choice
- Mental disorder and legal responsibility
- Treatment without consent
内容説明・目次
内容説明
How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine.
The controversy over the nature of mental disorder and the appropriateness of the "medical model" is not just an abstract theoretical debate: it has a bearing on very practical issues of appropriate treatment, as well as on psychiatric ethics and law. A major contention of this book is that these questions are ultimately philosophical in character: they can be resolved only if we abandon some widespread philosophical assumptions about the "mind" and the "body", and about what it means for
medicine to be "scientific".
The "phenomenological" approach of the twentieth-century French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty is used to question these assumptions. His conception of human beings as "body-subjects" is argued to provide a more illuminating way of thinking about mental disorder and the ways in which it can be understood and treated. The conditions we conventionally call "mental disorders" are, it is argued, not a homogeneous group: the standard interpretation of the medical model fits some more readily
than others. The core mental disorders, however, are best regarded as disturbed ways of being in the world, which cause unhappiness because of deviation from "human" rather than straightforwardly "biological" norms. That is, they are problems in how we experience the world and especially other
people, rather than in physiological functioning - even though the nature of our experience cannot ultimately be separated from the ways in which our bodies function. This analysis is applied within the book both to issues in clinical treatment and to the special ethical and legal questions of psychiatry.
Written by a well known philosopher in an accessible and clear style, this book should be of interest to a wide range of readers, from psychiatrists to social workers, lawyers, ethicists, philosophers and anyone with an interest in mental health.
目次
- 1. Introducing the problem
- 2. Illness and disease
- 3. 'Minds' and 'bodies'
- 4. Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty
- 5. The body-subject and mental disorder
- 6. Mental disorder and choice
- 7. Mental disorder and legal resposibility
- 8. Treatment without consent
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