Reconceiving Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. It has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives. This book examines it from a philosophical point of view.

Readers will find the essays gathered here afford stimulating insights into the human mind and its conditions of vulnerability.

1. Introduction: on reconceiving schizophrenia
2. They diagnosed me a schizophrenic when I was just a Gemini.
'The other side of madness'
3. Conceptions of schizophrenia
4. Explaining schizophrenia: the relevance of phenomenology
5. Schizophrenic delusion and hallucination as the expression and consequence of an alteration of the existential a prioris
6. Schizophrenia: a phenomenological-anthropological approach
7. Schizophrenia and the sixth sense
8. The paralogisms of psychosis
9. How to move beyond the concept of schizophrenia
10. The delusional stance
11. Against the belief model of delusion
12. The clinician's illusion and benign psychosis
13. Defining persecutory paranoia
14. The functions of delusional beliefs
15. The logical basis of psychiatric meta-narratives
16. Suspicions of schizophrenia