Binding: Hardcover
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.
Title: The Self And Its Disorders
Author(s): Gallagher Prof Shaun (Lillian And Morrie Moss Chair Of Excellence In Philosophy Lillian And Morrie Moss Chair Of Excellence In Philosophy University Of Memphis)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198873068
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 3/11/2024
Category: Psychiatry