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Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind: What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds book cover

1st Edition

Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds

Edited By Valentina Cardella, Amelia Gangemi Copyright 2021
306 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind. Drawing on the expertise of leading academics, the book discusses how psychopathology can be used to inform our understanding of the human mind. The book argues that studying mental... Read more

Contributors

Preface

          Part 1: Cognition in the Light of Psychopathology

  1. A Preliminary Step: Understanding the Mental in Mental Disorders

    2. Valentina Cardella

  2. Mental Illnesses are Emotional Disorders

    3. Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  3. Reasoning and Goals: From Psychopathological Patients to Healthy People

    4. Amelia Gangemi and Francesco Mancini

  4. Reasoning, Trauma, and PTSD: Insights into the Emotion-Cognition Interaction

    5. Isabelle Blanchette and Sara-Valérie Giroux

  5. The Distinction between Altruistic and Deontological Guilt Feelings: Insights from Psychopathology

    6. Francesco Mancini, Guyonne Rogier and Amelia Gangemi

  6. The Narrative Self in Schizophrenia and its Cognitive Underpinnings

    7. Ines Adornetti and Francesco Ferretti

  7. Delusions and Pathologies of Belief: Making Sense of Conspiracy Beliefs via the Psychosis Continuum

    8. Niall Galbraith

    Part 2: Psychopathology and Human Nature

  8. Normality at the Mirror of Madness: Historical Considerations on a Chimeric Boundary

    9. Francesco Paolo Tocco

  9. "There is a system in lunacy": Morality and Normativity in Mental Disorders

    10. Leonarda Vaiana

  10. The Dark Side of Language

    11. Valentina Cardella and Alessandra Falzone

  11. Identity, Narratives and Psychopathology: A Critical Perspective

    12. Pietro Perconti

  12. Bodies that Love Themselves and Bodies that Hate Themselves: The Role of Lived Experience in Body Integrity Dysphoria

    13. Antonino Pennisi and Alessandro Capodici

  13. Lost in Love: Why is it so Painful when Romance goes Wrong?

    14. Domenica Bruni

  14. Embodied and Disembodied Rationality: What Morbid Rationalism and Hyper-Reflexivity tell us about Human Intelligence and Intentionality

         Giovanni Pennisi and Shaun Gallagher

Biography

Valentina Cardella is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Messina, Italy. Her research interests encompass cognitive sciences, philosophy of language, and psychopathology. She is author of several books and papers on various topics of interest.

Amelia Gangemi is Full Professor in General Psychology at the University of Messina, Italy. Her research activity is in the area of thinking; she is, moreover, focused on examining the different ways in which emotional and motivational states affect intelligence and reasoning. She is author of several books and papers on various topics of interest.

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