Alien landscapes? : interpreting disordered minds /
Glover, Jonathan,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Antisocial personality," values, psychiatry -- Socratic questions in Broadmoor -- The contours of a moral landscape -- Childhood and after -- Interpreting this landscape -- Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor -- On human interpretation -- Hopes for the future of psychiatry -- "A skill so deeply hidden in the human soul" -- Intuitive interpretation -- Reflective interpretation -- Human interpretation in psychiatry -- "A gulf which defies description" -- Autism and interpretation -- Interpreting delusions -- Waking dreams -- The boundaries of psychiatry -- The need for boundaries -- Personality and sexuality -- Dysfunction? -- Harm -- What is autism? -- Crossing the medical boundary? -- Strands in a good human life -- Agency, control, and responsibility -- Brain, mind, and agency -- Psychiatric conditions and the framework of responsibility -- What is addiction? -- Unwilling addiction as diminished control -- Character, personality disorder, and responsibility -- Identity -- 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 -- Epilogue.
Psychiatry
Mental illness