Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The Psychopathology of Common Sense

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Oxford University Press, 2004 - Bipolar disorder - 225 pages
This title includes the following features: Contains first person descriptions from sufferers of schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness, helping the reader to understand how they experience their illness; Provides an account of the phenomenological approach to psychopathology, giving thereader an essential tool for in-depth assessment of mental disorders; Analyses these disorders from both psychiatric and philosophical perspectives, providing an interdisciplinary examination of the mental lives of sufferers

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Prologue The tattooed room
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This is not a delusion
183
References
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Giovanni Stanghellini, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florence, Italy.

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