Overview
- Provides an overview of phenomenology, psychoanalysis, critical theory and post-structuralist traditions
- Gives accessible and comprehensive introductions to key concepts, texts and thinkers
- Provides a vital contribution to scholars studying the contemporary role of psychiatry and its conceptual history
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This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness. It traces the paradoxical endeavour of reason attempting to understand madness without dissolving the inherent strangeness and otherness of madness. It provides a comprehensive overview of the contributions of phenomenology, critical theory, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and anti-psychiatry to continental philosophy and psychiatry. The book outlines an intellectual tradition of psychiatry that is both fascinated by and withdraws from madness. Madness is a lure for philosophy in two senses; as both trap and provocation. It is a trap because this philosophical tradition constructs an otherness of madness so profound, that it condemns madness to silence. However, the idea of madness as another world is also a fertile provocation because it respects the non-identity of madness to reason. The book concludes with some critical reflections on the role of madness in contemporary philosophical thought.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Reviews
“In tracing the continental philosophy of psychiatry tradition, Morgan does indeed succeed in rescuing it from obscurity, in ways that will benefit many. For researchers, the book opens many exegetical and conceptual questions, or returns to old questions from a fresh perspective. For clinicians, a rich and pluralistic understanding of madness emerges, holding space for its difference while recognising the contexts of violence and contradiction that produce it. … As such, there are many who stand to gain from engaging with this important book.” (Robert Chapman, Psychiatrie Filosofie, psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl, June, 2023)
Authors and Affiliations
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Alastair Morgan is a Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry
Book Subtitle: The Lure of Madness
Authors: Alastair Morgan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09334-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09333-3Published: 12 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09336-4Published: 13 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09334-0Published: 10 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 421
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychiatry