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Madness Explained

Psychosis and Human Nature

By: Richard P. Bentall

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Paperback | 29 April 2004 | Edition Number 1

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A revised edition of Madness Explained, Richard Bentall''s groundbreaking classic on mental illness

In Madness Explained, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there a clear dividing line between who is sane and who is insane? For this revised edition, he adds new material drawing on the recent advances in molecular genetics, new studies of the role of environment in psychosis, and important discoveries on early symptoms preceding illness, among other important developments in our understanding.

''Madness Explained is a substantial, yet highly accessible work. Full of insight and humanity, it deserves a wide readership.'' Sunday Times

''Will give readers a glimpse both of answers to their own problems, and to questions about how the mind works'' Independent Magazine

Richard P. Bentall holds a Chair in Experimental Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester. In 1989 he received the British Psychological Society''s May Davidson Award for his contribution to the field of Clinical Psychology.

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This is a book to seduce a new generation into psychiatry and psychology. ("The Independent Magazine") Madness Explained is a substantial, yet highly accessible work. Full of insight and humanity, it deserves a wide readership. ("Paul Brooks, "Sunday Times")

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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Author's preface
Emil Kraepelin's big idea : the origins of modern psychiatric theory	p. 3
After Kraepelin : how the standard approach to psychiatric classification evolved	p. 19
The great classification crisis : how it was discovered that the standard system was scientifically meaningless	p. 41
Fool's gold : why psychiatric diagnoses do not work	p. 67
The boundaries of madness : why there is no boundary between sanity and madness	p. 95
Them and us : modern psychiatry as a cultural system	p. 118
The significance of biology : psychosis, the brain and the concept of 'disease'	p. 149
Mental life and human nature : madness and the social brain	p. 179
Madness and emotion : human emotions and the negative symptoms of psychosis	p. 205
Depression and the pathology of self : core psychological processes that are important in severe mental illness	p. 233
A colourful malady : the psychology of mania	p. 270
Abnormal attitudes : the psychology of delusional beliefs	p. 293
On the paranoid world view : towards a unified theory of depression, mania and paranoia	p. 330
The illusion of reality : the psychology of hallucinations	p. 347
The language of madness : the communication difficulties of psychotic patients	p. 378
Things are much more complex than they seem : the instability of psychosis, and the solution to the riddle of psychiatric classification	p. 405
From the cradle to the clinic : psychosis considered from a developmental perspective	p. 436
The trials of life : how life experiences shape madness	p. 464
Madness and society : some implications of post-Kraepelinian psychopathology	p. 494
App: A glossary of technical and scientific terms	p. 513
Notes	p. 527
Index	p. 623
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