Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Three Inclusive ExclusionsChapter 2: "A subtle, pervasive and strangely uncertain light": Jaspers on understanding madnessChapter 3: "As strange to me as the birds in the garden": Bleuler, Jung and the creation of schizophreniaChapter 4: A distance from all that is human: Freud and Psychosis.- Part II: Through a glass darklyChapter 5: Vital ContactChapter 6: IpseityChapter 7: The Body.- Chapter 8: Being-in-the-worldPart III: It's a Mad worldChapter 9: "The world cannot acknowledge its own madness": alienation and the destruction of experienceChapter 10: Reification and Schizophrenia - a socio-pathological parallelismChapter 11: Beware, Marcuse!Chapter 12: "O my body. . .": Fanon and the pathologies of recognitionPart IV: "A certain madness must watch over thinking"Chapter 13: "In the distance of madness": Foucault and the History of MadnessChapter 14: The lure of madnessChapter 15: Lacan: the shadow of madnessChapter 16: The ineffable and limit-experiencePart V: Anti -Psychiatry and madnessChapter 17: Capitalism and schizophreniaChapter 18: A germinal anti-psychiatry: R.D. Laing's wild empathyChapter 19: "It all began with a 'no'": The Institution negatedChapter 20: Epilogue - The end of madness?

Alastair Morgan is a Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK.

"In tracing the continental philosophy of psychiatry tradition, Morgan does indeed succeed in rescuing it from obscurity, in ways that will benefit many. For researchers, the book opens many exegetical and conceptual questions, or returns to old questions from a fresh perspective. For clinicians, a rich and pluralistic understanding of madness emerges, holding space for its difference while recognising the contexts of violence and contradiction that produce it. ... As such, there are many who stand to gain from engaging with this important book." (Robert Chapman, Psychiatrie Filosofie, psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl, June, 2023)