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Schizophrenic Thought Insertion and Self-Experience
In contemporary philosophy of mind and psychiatry, schizophrenic thought insertion is often used as a validating or invalidating counterexample in...
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Agency and Ownership in Tic Disorders
This chapter asks what we know about the first-personal experience of ticcing and everyday action in people with Tourette Syndrome (TS) and other...
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Symptomologies of Post-Anthropocene
This chapter looks at the symptoms of the post-Anthropocene with the speculation that the capitalist system has brought on the onset of a range of...
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The importance of involving experts-by-experience with different psychiatric diagnoses when revising diagnostic criteria
Philosophers of science have recently called for experts-by-experience to be involved in revising psychiatric diagnoses. They argue that...
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Functional Reasoning in Psychiatry
Two types of functional reasoning are commonly used in psychiatry. For the first type, a mental disorder is conceptualized as the impairment of a...
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Phenomenological Psychiatry of Schizophrenia
This chapter provides an indirect approach to the problems of the minimal self and self-affection. The chapter examines the disintegration process of...
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Intensity of Experience: Maher’s Theory of Schizophrenic Delusion Revisited
Maher proposed in 1974 that schizophrenic delusions are hypotheses formed to explain anomalous experiences. He stated that they are “rational, given...
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Conclusion: Beyond Causes and Cures
This chapter synthesises the central themes laid out in this book, which investigates the relevance of philosophical ‘big topics’ such as time,...
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How autism shows that symptoms, like psychiatric diagnoses, are 'constructed': methodological and epistemic consequences
Critics who are concerned over the epistemological status of psychiatric diagnoses often describe them as being constructed. In contrast, those...
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Mental Disorders
Mental disorders pertain to the whole of an individual, a person, namely a ‘self-interpreting animal’. Psychiatric classifications can influence what...
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Consciousness and the Self
The first chapter is dedicated to the problem of consciousness and its relationship to the self. The aim of the chapter is to illustrate the shift...
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Why Does Mental Illness Exist? Reflections on Human Vulnerability
This chapter investigates more fundamentally the conditions of possibility for humans to become mentally ill in the first place. The fact that...
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Incoherent Discourse in Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Approach to the Mind
This article adopts the hypothesis that language impairment in schizophrenia is more a sign of an interactional deficit than of a central disorder at...
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Personality Disorder: Philosophical Problems
The concept of personality disorder was introduced in the twentieth century. Among the key events in the development of the personality disorder...
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How Deep Is Your Love or, How Thinking as Such Defies the Weight(s) of Imperialism
Elemental and embodied thinking disrupts the master–slave template by formulating thinking in such a way that it does not require an object. In fact,...
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Introduction: First Crossings
This introductory chapter sets the scene for the book’s philosophical investigation into contemporary Tourette Syndrome (TS) scholarship. It begins...
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Talking to the Stars
This chapter reflects on our connectedness with universal themes that may represent the scaffoldings for the multiple metaphors addressing the...
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Towards a phenomenological approach to psychopharmacology: drug-centered model and epistemic empowerment
The long-standing tradition of phenomenological psychopathology has been historically concerned with the nature of mental disorders, with a special...
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Conceptualizing a less paranoid schizophrenia
Schizophrenia stands as one of the most studied and storied disorders in the history of clinical psychology; however, it remains a nexus of...
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Lacan: The Shadow of Madness
In Chap. 15 I consider Jacques Lacan’s approach to madness. Lacan’s psychoanalysis is formulated within...