Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?

ISBN-13: 9780415227186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 376 str.

Mary Boyle

Opis

Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?, first published in 1990, made a contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental illness. These concepts remain both influential and controversial and this new updated second edition provides a critical analysis of the debates during the 1990s. As well as providing updated versions of the historical and scientific arguments against the concept of schizophrenia which formed the basis of the first edition, Boyle covers new material, including: the development of DSM-IV's version of schizophrenia analysis of social, psychological and linguistic processes which construct schizophrenia as a reasonable version of reality; and a detailed critical evaluation of recent alternatives to the concept of schizophrenia. This text demonstrates that the need for analysis and debate on these issues is as great as ever and that we need to question how we think about and manage what we call madness.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Evaluating the validity of ‘schizophrenia’; Chapter 2 The background; Chapter 3 The necessary conditions for inferring schizophrenia; Chapter 4 The official correspondence rules for inferring schizophrenia; Chapter 5 The official correspondence rules for inferring schizophrenia; Chapter 6 Genetic research; Chapter 7 Supporting and maintaining ‘schizophrenia’; Chapter 8 Living without ‘schizophrenia’;

O autorze

Mary Boyle is Professor of Clinical Psychology, and Head of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. She has worked as an NHS Clinical Psychologist and her previous publications include the first edition of Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion? (1990) and Rethinking Abortion: Psychology, Gender, Power and Law (1997).