Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity

Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781134754281
ISBN-13 : 1134754280
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity by : Ivan Leudar

Download or read book Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity written by Ivan Leudar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the experience has metamorphosed from being a sign of virtue to a sign of insanity, signalling such illnesses as schizophrenia or dissociation. They argue that the experience is interpreted by the voice hearer according to social categories conveyed through language, and is therefore best studied as a matter of language use. Controversially, they conclude that 'hearing voices' is an ordinary human experience which is unfortunately either mystified or pathologised. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic experience and will be of interest to students, researchers and clinicians alike.

Hearing Voices

Hearing Voices
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 471
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ISBN-10 : 9781107007222
ISBN-13 : 1107007224
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hearing Voices by : Simon McCarthy-Jones

Download or read book Hearing Voices written by Simon McCarthy-Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).

Mental Patient

Mental Patient
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780262371223
ISBN-13 : 0262371227
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mental Patient by : Abigail Gosselin

Download or read book Mental Patient written by Abigail Gosselin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher who has experienced psychosis argues that recovery requires regaining agency and autonomy within a therapeutic relationship based on mutual trust. In Mental Patient, philosopher Abigail Gosselin uses her personal experiences with psychosis and the process of recovery to explore often overlooked psychiatric ethics. For many people who struggle with psychosis, she argues, psychosis impairs agency and autonomy. She shows how clinicians can help psychiatric patients regain agency and autonomy through a positive therapeutic relationship characterized by mutual trust. Patients, she says, need to take an active role in regaining their agency and autonomy—specifically, by giving testimony, constructing a narrative of their experience to instill meaning, making choices about treatment, and deciding to show up and participate in life activities. Gosselin examines how psychotic experience is medicalized and describes what it is like to be a patient receiving mental health care treatment. In addition to mutual trust, she says, a productive therapeutic relationship requires the clinician’s empathetic understanding of the patient’s experiences and perspective. She also explains why psychotic patients sometimes feel ambivalent about recovery and struggle to stay committed to it. The psychiatric ethics issues she examines include the development of epistemic agency and credibility, epistemic justice, the use of coercion, therapeutic alliance, the significance of choice, and the taking of responsibility. Mental Patient differs from straightforward memoirs of psychiatric illness in that it analyses philosophic issues related to psychosis and recovery, and it differs from other books on psychiatric ethics in that its analyses are drawn from the author’s first-person experiences as a mental patient.

Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine

Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9780429750946
ISBN-13 : 0429750943
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine by : Christopher C. H. Cook

Download or read book Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine written by Christopher C. H. Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 1841698032
ISBN-13 : 9781841698038
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Cognitive Neuropsychiatry by : Sean A. Spence

Download or read book Cognitive Neuropsychiatry written by Sean A. Spence and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue of Cogntive Neuropsychiatry is devoted to the problem of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs): the experience of "hearing voices".

Between Magic and Rationality

Between Magic and Rationality
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Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9788763542135
ISBN-13 : 8763542137
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Between Magic and Rationality by : Vibeke Steffen

Download or read book Between Magic and Rationality written by Vibeke Steffen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Between Magic and Reality, Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahauge bring together a diverse range of ethnographies that examine and explore the forms of reflection, action, and interaction that govern the ways different contemporary societies create and challenge the limits of reason. The essays here visit an impressive array of settings, including international scientific laboratories, British spiritualist meetings, Chinese villages, Danish rehabilitation centers, and Uzbeki homes, where they encounter a diverse assortment of people whose beliefs and concerns exhibit an unusual but central contemporary dichotomy: scientific reason versus spiritual/paranormal belief. Exploring the paradoxical way these modes of thought push against reason's boundaries, they offer a deep look at the complex ways they coexist, contest one another, and are ultimately intertwined. Vibeke Steffen is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, where Steffen Jöncke is senior advisor. Kirsten Marie Raahauge is associate professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

The Text and the Voice

The Text and the Voice
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 446
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ISBN-10 : 0231504888
ISBN-13 : 9780231504881
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Text and the Voice by : Alessandro Portelli

Download or read book The Text and the Voice written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Text and the Voice