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Dreams and Delusions
Psychiatric Explorations
ISBN/EAN: 9783948442040
Umbreit-Nr.: 8549766
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 240 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Paperback
Erschienen am 27.01.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
- Zusatztext
- This book is a wide-ranging collection of articles and essays on mainly psychiatric topics, but there are also some contributions on the closely related fields of psychology and medicine. Although the psychiatric topics are diverse, ranging from intriguing historical case studies to contemporary problems of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, there are some shared themes which include the unity of mind and body, the notion of psychiatric diagnosis as a social construction, the importance of the autonomy of patients and the malign influence of negative stereotypes of mental illness. The close connection between psychiatry and psychology is illustrated, for instance, by the brief discussion of the effect of the colour green on our mood, while The Decline Effect casts significant doubt on the validity of many of the findings of medical research.
- Autorenportrait
- Paul Crichton MA (Oxon), MD (Munich), FRCPsych, PhD (London). Dr. Crichton is a Consultant Psychiatrist working for the Ministry of Justice in London. His first degree was in Classical Studies (Latin, Greek, Ancient History and Philosophy) at Oxford University. His medical training was at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He worked for two years in neurology, at the Klinikum Großhadern in Munich and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, before doing his psychiatric training, first at Charing Cross Hospital and then at the Maudsley Hospital in London. He worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry at Guys Hospital in London and then as Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Marsden Hospital, doing liaison psychiatry and cognitive behavioural therapy with people with cancer. He now sits on Mental Health Review Tribunals in London for the Ministry of Justice. In 2003 he completed a BA and then in 2010 a PhD in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His PhD was entitled Self-Realization An Exploration and his supervisors were Prof. Miranda Fricker and Prof. Susan James. It formed the basis of his book Self-Realization and Inner Necessity Thinking about How to Live (London: Kiener Press, 2013). He has also written papers and articles for scientific and literary journals, including the British Journal of Psychiatry, the Lancet and the Times Literary Supplement. His main interests lie in the borderline areas between psychiatry, psychology and philosophy, including, for example, psychotic phenomena, rationality and cognitive distortions, the mind-body problem, autonomy, social justice and political freedom, the social identity of individuals, ethical and non-ethical values, and self-realization. The thinkers who have most inspired him include Aristotle, Plato, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Freud, Kahneman, Williams, Taylor, Nussbaum and Frankfurt.