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Alien Landscapes?: Interpreting Disordered Minds

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Description for Alien Landscapes?: Interpreting Disordered Minds Hardcover. Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles the hard cases--violent criminals, people with delusions, autism, schizophrenia--to answer affirmatively. He offers values linked with agency and identity to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations (colour). BIC Classification: HPM; JMP; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 236 x 32. Weight in Grams: 880.

We have made huge progress in understanding the biology of mental illnesses, but comparatively little in interpreting them at the psychological level. The eminent philosopher Jonathan Glover believes that there is real hope of progress in the human interpretation of disordered minds.

The challenge is that the inner worlds of people with psychiatric disorders can seem strange, like alien landscapes, and this strangeness can deter attempts at understanding. Do people with disorders share enough psychology with other people to make interpretation possible? To explore this question, Glover tackles the hard cases—the inner worlds of hospitalized violent criminals, of people ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674368361
SKU
V9780674368361
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-22

About Jonathan Glover
Jonathan Glover is Professor of Ethics at the School of Law, King’s College London.

Reviews for Alien Landscapes?: Interpreting Disordered Minds
[An] interesting and readable book, the professed aims of which are to make mental health patients seem less alien and to emphasize the role of the humane and the humanities in psychiatry… Admirable.
Iain McGilchrist
Literary Review
A wide-ranging philosophical investigation of psychology and a psychological examination of philosophy.
Jonathon Keats
New Scientist
A ... Read more

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