Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies The Psychopathology of Common Sense

Name: Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies The Psychopathology of Common Sense
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ISBN: 9780198520894

ISBN-10: 0198520891

ISBN-13: 9780198520894

Edition: 2004

Authors: Giovanni Stanghellini

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How can we better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses? This important new book takes us into the world of those suffering from such disorders. Using self descriptions, its emphasis is not on how mental health professionals view sufferers, but on how the patients themselves experience their disorder. Central to the book is the idea that schizophrenic persons live like disembodied spirits or deanimated bodies. As disembodied spirits, they feel like abstract entities which contemplate their own existence and the world from outside. As deanimated bodies, schizophrenic people feel deprived of the possibility of living personal experiences -…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Prologue - the tattooed room



The genealogy of psychopathology



The origins of the psychopathology of the social being



The ascetic misunderstanding and social phenomenology



Aporias of intersubjectivity



The social world of melancholic and schizophrenic persons



The senses of common sense



The internal statue



Cyborgs and scanners



Voices and consciousness



This is not a delusion


Epilogue