
The Self and its Disorders
Shaun Gallagher(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 2. January 2024
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-0-19-887306-8 (ISBN)
Description
Shaun Gallagher offers an account of psychopathologies as disorders of the self. The Self and its Disorders develops an interdisciplinary approach to an 'integrative' perspective in psychiatry. In contrast to some integrative approaches that focus on narrow brain-based conceptions, or on symptomology, this book takes its bearings from embodied and enactive conceptions of human experience. Gallagher offers an understanding of the self as a pattern of processes that include bodily, experiential, affective, cognitive, intersubjective, narrative, ecological and normative factors. He provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of self-pattern; then, drawing on phenomenological, developmental, clinical and experimental evidence, he proposes a method to study the effects of psychopathologies on the self-pattern. The book includes specific discussions of schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, depression, borderline personality disorder, and autism, among other disorders, as well as the effects of torture and solitary confinement. It also explores a variety of issues that relate to therapeutic approaches, including deep brain stimulation, meditation-based interventions, and the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Reviews / Votes
Gallagher's book is both theoretically innovative and loaded with insightful interpretations of empirical data. He succeeds in giving a clear presentation of the wide variety of studies and approaches that populate the current field of the philosophy of psychiatry, and he sketches a promising path for an integrative solution which could allow us to recognise and analyse the heterogeneity of the constitutive processes and scales constitutive of mental conditions. * Benedetta Cogo, The European Legacy *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
736 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-887306-8 (9780198873068)
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Person
Shaun Gallagher, PhD, Hon DPhil., is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, and Professorial Fellow at the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong. He was a Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Fellow (2012-18) and has held Honorary Professorships at Tromso University (Norway), Durham (UK), and Copenhagen (DK), as well as visiting positions at Cambridge, Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Oxford, and Rome. His areas of research include phenomenology, philosophy of mind, embodied cognition, social cognition, and concepts of self. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
Author
Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in PhilosophyLillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis
Content
Introduction
1: A pattern theory of self
2: The nature of patterns
3: A threefold method for studying the self-pattern
4: Dynamical relations in the self-pattern
5: Disorder, dissociation and disruption in self-narrative
6: Phenomenological anchors: Mapping experiences of agency and ownership
7: Autonomy in the self-pattern: Implications for deep brain stimulation and affordance-based therapies
8: Artificial transformations of the self-pattern
9: Mindfulness in the self-pattern
10: The cruel and unusual phenomenologies of torture and solitary confinement
Bibliography
1: A pattern theory of self
2: The nature of patterns
3: A threefold method for studying the self-pattern
4: Dynamical relations in the self-pattern
5: Disorder, dissociation and disruption in self-narrative
6: Phenomenological anchors: Mapping experiences of agency and ownership
7: Autonomy in the self-pattern: Implications for deep brain stimulation and affordance-based therapies
8: Artificial transformations of the self-pattern
9: Mindfulness in the self-pattern
10: The cruel and unusual phenomenologies of torture and solitary confinement
Bibliography