On Madness - Gipps, Richard G. T.
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Approaching psychotic thought as an unmooring from the world that causes reason's practical footing to falter, philosopher and clinical psychologist Richard Gipps combines first-person memoirs and clinical material, pinpointing the ways thought and experience involve a loss of reason and indeed of one's mind. This understanding of psychotic thought as the total collapse of reality allows us to better grasp what it means to suffer delusion, hallucination and self-disturbances. Striking and urgent, Gipps is not only giving us a more human psychiatry, he is widening our appreciation of what it is to understand the thought of another person.…mehr

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Approaching psychotic thought as an unmooring from the world that causes reason's practical footing to falter, philosopher and clinical psychologist Richard Gipps combines first-person memoirs and clinical material, pinpointing the ways thought and experience involve a loss of reason and indeed of one's mind. This understanding of psychotic thought as the total collapse of reality allows us to better grasp what it means to suffer delusion, hallucination and self-disturbances. Striking and urgent, Gipps is not only giving us a more human psychiatry, he is widening our appreciation of what it is to understand the thought of another person.
Autorenporträt
Richard G. T. Gipps is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Associate of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (2019).