Madness explained: psychosis and human nature 9780141909325, 0141909323, 9780713992496, 0713992492

Table of contents :
1 Emil Kraepelin's big idea : the origins of modern psychiatric theory --
2 After Kraepelin : how the standard approach to psychiatric classification evolved --
3 The great classification crisis : how it was discovered that the standard system was scientifically meaningless --
4 Fool's gold : why psychiatric diagnoses do not work --
5 The boundaries of madness : why there is no boundary between sanity and madness --
6 Them and us : modern psychiatry as a cultural system --
7 The significance of biology : psychosis, the brain and the concept of 'disease' --
8 Mental life and human nature : madness and the social brain --
9 Madness and emotion : human emotions and the negative symptoms of psychosis --
10 Depression and the pathology of self : core psychological processes that are important in severe mental illness --
11 A colourful malady : the psychology of mania --
12 Abnormal attitudes : the psychology of delusional beliefs --
13 On the paranoid world view : towards a unified theory of depression, mania and paranoia --
14 The illusion of reality : the psychology of hallucinations --
15 The language of madness : the communication difficulties of psychotic patients --
16 Things are much more complex than they seem : the instability of psychosis, and the solution to the riddle of psychiatric classification --
17 From the cradle to the clinic : psychosis considered from a developmental perspective --
18 The trials of life : how life experiences shape madness --
19 Madness and society : some implications of post-Kraepelinian psychopathology --
Appendix: A glossary of technical and scientific terms.

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