Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies

In this marvellous book, Stanghellini reinvigorates and resurrects psychopathology as more than just the listing of symptoms, re-presenting it as the 'science of the meanings of abnormal human phenomena' . . . The book, from the successful and influential OUP series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry, is, like the others, a joy to read . . . All mental health professionals are likely to gain, both clinically and intellectually, from reading this book, and carers, patients and philosophers will find much to help them engage with the potentially disorientating and frightening reality of psychosis.

• Prologue - the tattooed room ; 1. The genealogy of psychopathology ; 2. The origins of the psychopathology of the social being ; 3. The ascetic misunderstanding and social phenomenology ; 4. Aporias of intersubjectivity ; 5. The social world of melancholic and schizophrenic persons ; 6. The senses of common sense ; 7. The internal statue ; 8. Cyborgs and scanners ; 9. Voices and consciousness ; 10. This is not a delusion ; Epilogue