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The mind and its discontents: an essay in discursive psychiatry/ Grant Gillett.

By: Gillett, GrantMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvi, 432 p. 25 cmISBN: 9780199237548Subject(s): Psychiatry -- Philosophy | Mental illness | Philosophy of mindDDC classification: 128.2

Contents:

1. Mind, brain, and psychiatry -- 2. Categorization and stigmatization -- 3. The treatment of aliens -- 4. The depths of the self -- 5. Thought in disarray -- 6. The black dog and the muse -- 7. Fidgets -- 8. I and the other robots -- 9. Moral insanity and evil -- 10. 'My name is Legion, for we are many' -- 11. I eat, therefore I am not -- 12. The meaning of hysteria -- 13. The pathologies of each are the pathologies of all -- 14. Concluding autobiographical postscript.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	128.2 GIL/M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P22542

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-414) and index.

1. Mind, brain, and psychiatry --
2. Categorization and stigmatization --
3. The treatment of aliens --
4. The depths of the self --
5. Thought in disarray --
6. The black dog and the muse --
7. Fidgets --
8. I and the other robots --
9. Moral insanity and evil --
10. 'My name is Legion, for we are many' --
11. I eat, therefore I am not --
12. The meaning of hysteria --
13. The pathologies of each are the pathologies of all --
14. Concluding autobiographical postscript.

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