Body-subjects and disordered minds
By: Eric Matthews.
Series: International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780198566441; 9780198566434
Subjects: Mental illness -- Philosophy; Mental illness -- Physiological aspects; Psychiatry -- Philosophy; Mind and body; Mental Disorders -- therapy; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics); Psychiatry -- ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the problem; title: Illness and disease; title: 'Minds' and 'bodies'; title: Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty; title: The body-subject and mental disorder; title: Mental disorder and choice; title: Mental disorder and legal responsibility; title: Treatment without consent.