Madness Explained Psychosis and Human Nature

, by Bentall, Richard P; Beck, Aaron T.

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ISBN: 9780140275407 | 0140275401
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/29/2004

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Part of a Growing International Movement to Change the Face of Mental Illness

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Author's preface
Emil Kraepelin's big idea : the origins of modern psychiatric theory	p. 3
After Kraepelin : how the standard approach to psychiatric classification evolved	p. 19
The great classification crisis : how it was discovered that the standard system was scientifically meaningless	p. 41
Fool's gold : why psychiatric diagnoses do not work	p. 67
The boundaries of madness : why there is no boundary between sanity and madness	p. 95
Them and us : modern psychiatry as a cultural system	p. 118
The significance of biology : psychosis, the brain and the concept of 'disease'	p. 149
Mental life and human nature : madness and the social brain	p. 179
Madness and emotion : human emotions and the negative symptoms of psychosis	p. 205
Depression and the pathology of self : core psychological processes that are important in severe mental illness	p. 233
A colourful malady : the psychology of mania	p. 270
Abnormal attitudes : the psychology of delusional beliefs	p. 293
On the paranoid world view : towards a unified theory of depression, mania and paranoia	p. 330
The illusion of reality : the psychology of hallucinations	p. 347
The language of madness : the communication difficulties of psychotic patients	p. 378
Things are much more complex than they seem : the instability of psychosis, and the solution to the riddle of psychiatric classification	p. 405
From the cradle to the clinic : psychosis considered from a developmental perspective	p. 436
The trials of life : how life experiences shape madness	p. 464
Madness and society : some implications of post-Kraepelinian psychopathology	p. 494
App: A glossary of technical and scientific terms	p. 513
Notes	p. 527
Index	p. 623
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Madness Explained Psychosis and Human Nature

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