Reconceiving Schizophrenia

Man Cheung Chung earned his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology at the University of Guelph, Canada, and PhD at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He worked as a Research Psychologist at University College London. He then took on a Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and subsequently held lectureships at the Universities of Wolverhampton and Sheffield. He is now a Reader in the Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit at the University of Plymouth. He is also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research interests include history and philosophy of psychology and health/clinical psychology. He has published over 100 articles and chapters in the foregoing areas as well as on other diverse topics.Before joining the faculty of Wake Forest in 2003, Graham served for more than twenty-five years on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), including seventeen as philosophy department chair. Graham's research focuses on topics in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and psychiatry.

• 1. Introduction: on reconceiving schizophrenia ; 2. They diagnosed me a schizophrenic when I was just a Gemini. 'The other side of madness' ; 3. Conceptions of schizophrenia ; 4. Explaining schizophrenia: the relevance of phenomenology ; 5. Schizophrenic delusion and hallucination as the expression and consequence of an alteration of the existential a prioris ; 6. Schizophrenia: a phenomenological-anthropological approach ; 7. Schizophrenia and the sixth sense ; 8. The paralogisms of psychosis ; 9. How to move beyond the concept of schizophrenia ; 10. The delusional stance ; 11. Against the belief model of delusion ; 12. The clinician's illusion and benign psychosis ; 13. Defining persecutory paranoia ; 14. The functions of delusional beliefs ; 15. The logical basis of psychiatric meta-narratives ; 16. Suspicions of schizophrenia

The volume contains many thought-provoking and worthwhile contributions, with little overlap of content, and all of them deserve detailed consideration. It serves as an amazing achievement of conceptual rigor in thinking about schizophrenia.