Alien landscapes? : interpreting disordered minds / Jonathan Glover.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Socratic questions in Broadmoor -- The contours of a moral landscape -- Childhood and after -- Interpreting this landscape -- Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor -- Hopes for the future of psychiatry -- "A skill so deeply hidden in the human soul" -- Intuitive interpretation -- Reflective interpretation -- "A gulf which defies description" -- Autism and interpretation -- Interpreting delusions -- Waking dreams -- The need for boundaries -- Personality and sexuality -- Dysfunction? -- Harm -- What is autism? -- Crossing the medical boundary? -- Strands in a good human life -- Brain, mind, and agency -- Psychiatric conditions and the framework of responsibility -- What is addiction? -- Unwilling addiction as diminished control -- Character, personality disorder, and responsibility -- The sense of self -- Moral identity and moral injury -- Psychotherapy, autonomy, and self-creation -- Entrapment in eating disorders -- Authenticity and identity in eating disorders -- Dementia, responsibility, and identity -- Schizophrenia -- Self-creation, values, and psychiatric disorder.

In English.

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