Acknowledgements
Introduction
Glossary
1. The utility of critical realism
2. The limits of naïve realism
3. The limits of postmodernism
4. Do we exist as individuals?
5. Does the brain cause behaviour?
6. Does life gone on within you and without you?
7. Is child sexual abuse a moral panic?
8. How do know if a person has been tortured?
9. Why do we protest (sometimes)?
10. How has psychiatric diagnosis both failed and survived?
11. Why was psychoanalysis marginalised?
12. The possibility of a critical realist human science
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton, UK.
