Hearing voices
Subtitle: embodiment and experience
By: Lisa Blackman.
Publisher: Free Association Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Auditory hallucinations.; Schizophrenia.; Hallucinations -- psychology.; Psychological Theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction viii; title: Unravelling the mystery of schizophrenia 1; title: When symptoms persist 3; title: Empowering people who hear voices 5; title: Doing critical psychology 6; title: 1 The Psychiatric Architecture 15; title: The building of black boxes 16; title: The 'interaction' of the biological with the social 18; title: What does it mean to hallucinate? 19; title: The conceptual armoury 20; title: The source - where are the voices coming from? 21; title: Vividness 22; title: Control 22; title: Duration 23; title: The type 2 syndrome 25; title: When is a hallucination not a hallucination? 27; title: The psychiatric interview 30; title: The enfeebled personality 31; title: The experiment 33; title: 2 The Social and the Psychological 38; title: Conditions of risk 38; title: Activities of daily living 40; title: Changing our minds 43; title: Hallucinations as a disorder of consciousness 44; title: Hallucination as an example of 'inner speech' 46; title: Hallucination as a continuum of 'normal' mental imagery 48; title: The social psychology of hallucinations 52; title: Transcultural psychiatry 53; title: The phenomenology of perception 57; title: Role-strain 59; title: Beyond roles to attitudes 63; title: 3 Critical Psychology 69; title: Beyond the skin 69; title: The vagaries of social constructionism 70; title: Discourse and the psychological 74; title: The old tired theme of social constructionism 78; title: The historicity of experience 80; title: Technologies of truth 81; title: The analytic tools 88; title: Embodiment 89; title: 4 Contesting the Voice of Reason 94; title: Aberrations of mind 98; title: Hermeneutics of voices 99; title: Is 'man' a moral being? The age of sensibility 103; title: Deception as a mental state 106; title: The conditions of possibility 110; title: Moral education, moral reform and moral therapy 113; title: The hesitation 115; title: 5 Conditions of Degeneracy 120; title: The naturalisation of responsibility 122; title: Crime and responsibility 126; title: Conditions for degeneracy 129; title: The asylum 130; title: Clinical medicine 130; title: Unemployment, poverty and conditions of life 132; title: Madness as an expression of degeneracy 134; title: The imagination 135; title: The science of psychiatry 136; title: Archaism in the twentieth century 139; title: Beyond the corporeal 140; title: 6 The Invention of the Neuroses 148; title: Reaction types 149; title: The significance of 'hearing voices' 151; title: Psychoses and psychoneuroses in war 155; title: Traumatic neuroses 158; title: Beyond sensibility - a journey to enlightenment 160; title: The making of a mystic 163; title: Doors in the wall 167; title: The counter culture 169; title: The emergence of a psychological space 171; title: 'To conclude 172; title: 7 'I'echniques of the Hallucinatory Self 177; title: Move to consumption 178; title: Technologies of the self 182; title: History of psychiatry 186; title: The significance of hearing voices 187; title: The Hearing Voices Network 188; title: Coping with voices 188; title: Blackmind 190; title: Techniques of the hallucinatory self 192; title: Working with voices 197; title: Understanding your experiences 199; title: A voice-profile 200; title: When symptoms persist 201; title: The voice of reason 203; title: Situated ethics 204; title: 8 Embodiment and Experience 206; title: Embodiment 210; title: How do you feel? 214; title: Practices of health and illness 218; title: You have the power to change! 224; title: Embodiment and biology 226; title: 9 Conclusion: 'Imagining the Future' 230; title: Notes 242; title: Bibliography 244; title: Index 263.