The Mind and its Discontents

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Grant Gillett (Dunedin Hospital and Otago Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand)

The Mind and its Discontents

Grant Gillett (Dunedin Hospital and Otago Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand)

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Oxford University Press
16 April 2009

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy of mind; Psychology; Abnormal psychology; Psychiatry

Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry

The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness. In the ten years since the first edition, there has been growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever. In The Mind and its Discontents, Grant Gillett argues that an understanding of mental illness requires more than just a study of biological models of mental processes and pathologies. As intensely social animals, he argues, we need to look for the causes of human mental disorders in our interactions with others; in social rule-following and its role in the organization of mental content; in the power relations embedded within social structures and cultural norms; in the way that our mental life is inscribed by a cumulative life of encounters with others. Drawing upon work from within the philosophy of mind, epistemology, post-modern continental philosophy, and philosophy of language, he tries to elucidate the nature of psychiatric phenomena involving disorders of thought, perception, emotion, moral sense, and action. Within this framework, a series of chapters analyse important psychiatric disorders such as depression, attention deficiency, autism, schizophrenia, and anorexia. Along the way, Gillett explores the nature of memory and identity; of hysteria and what constitutes rational behaviour; and of what causes us to label someone a psychopath or deviant. Updated, available in paperback, and more accessible than before, the new edition of this fascinating book will provide readers with important insights into the causes and nature of psychosis. In addition, Gillett's arguments have considerable implications for the way in which we understand and treat people suffering from psychiatric disorders. The Mind and its Discontents will be read by researchers and postgraduate students in a range of academic areas, including psychiatry, bioethics, philosophy of mind, social theory, and clinical psychology. It will also be of considerable interest to practising psychiatrists.

By: Grant Gillett (Dunedin Hospital and Otago Bioethics Centre University of Otago Medical School Dunedin New Zealand)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199237548
ISBN 10: 0199237549
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 16 April 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Mind and its Discontents

`Review from previous edition Gillett's book is a serious and morally sensitive attempt to weld two approaches into a harmony, avoiding crude materialist reduction on the one hand and naïve sentimentality, or an irrationalist slide into post-modernism, on the other... This is a work of significance, and its comprehensiveness and the depth and subtlety of its analyses of central domains of psychiatry moves the growing literature in this genre one more step forward. ' Rom Harre, Medical Humanities Review