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Write-up2 (as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12): Psychopathology
Plug Note3
- Thesis Text:
- Psychopathological cases are useful as real-life Thought Experiments4 for teasing out issues in the topic of personal identity, as in psychology5 generally, though it’s strictly-speaking of more interest to those espousing varieties of the Psychological View6 than to animalists7 like myself.
- The underlying assumption is that pathological cases have lessons for the general non-pathological case. It is only when a hidden process goes wrong that we get clues as to how it works.
- It is somewhat moot – though maybe not hugely relevant to my concerns – just what conditions count as pathological. Not everyone agrees that the latest edition of DSM8 has it right, as many social and political factors enter into the choices.
- The topic of aphasia – loss of the ability to speak – is of particular interest given the inclusion of language9 as a defining characteristic of persons10 – on some accounts.
- The same might be said of deficits of memory11 or of sense of self12 (autism).
Further Remarks:
- See also my Notes on:-
- Clinical Observations13,
- Commissurotomy14,
- Multiple Personality Disorder15, and
- Wantons16
References
- Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
- For a Page of Links17 to this Note, Click here.
- Works on this topic that I’ve actually read18, include the following:-
- Aeon:
- "Aamodt (Caitlin) - On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Aeon - Video - A brief history of melancholy", 2021, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - A is for autism", 2022, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Abductees", 2022, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Composite", 2022, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Devil in the room", 2014, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Do I see what you see?", 2020, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Don't think twice", 2020, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Letting you go", 2016, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Nyctophobia", 2021, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Out of mind", 2021, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - You've never been completely honest", 2022, External Link
- "Alkema (Anne) & Boks (Marco) - The shadows cast by childhood abuse and neglect are not the same", 2024
- "Baskin-Sommers (Arielle) - Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Black (Melissa) - Unboxing mental health", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bond (Michael) - We are wayfinders", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Broks (Paul) - Unholy anorexia", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "David (Anthony) - Patient, know thyself: how insight helps to treat psychosis", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Davis (Joseph E.) - Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "del Campo (Diego Ramirez Martin) - Eulogy for silence", 2024
- "Evans (Bonnie) - The autism paradox", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Foulkes (Lucy) - Ever taken pleasure in another’s pain? That’s ‘everyday sadism’", 2020, External Link
- "Haerle (Pablo Hubacher) - If thinking is rational, what makes overthinking irrational?", 2023, External Link
- "Happe (Francesca) - Autistic people shouldn’t have to use ‘camouflage’ to fit in", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Huston (Matt) - There’s a growing case for renaming ‘personality disorders’", 2023, External Link
- "Leslie (Grace) - Video - Neurosymphony", 2019, External Link
- "Limburg (Joanne) - Am I disabled?", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Love (Shayla) - When the human tendency to detect patterns goes too far", 2023, External Link
- "Love (Shayla) - You can want things you don’t like and like things you don’t want", 2024
- "Lupyan (Gary) - What colour do you see?", 2023, External Link
- "Ori (Jack) - Adapting to the neurotypical world is not the same as conforming", 2023, External Link
- "Orvell (Ariana) & Lebron-Cruz (Alexa) - Essentialism is insidious – but it might also be helpful", 2023, External Link
- "Pierre (Joseph) - A mad world", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Sunar (Neesa) - I have no mind's eye: let me try to describe it for you", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Svoboda (Elizabeth) - The kindled brain", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Zeman (Adam) - When the mind is dark, making art is a thrilling way to see", 2021, External Link
- General:
- "Benson (Ophelia) - This Isn't My Body", 2005, External Link
- "Carruthers (Peter) - Autism as Mind-Blindness: an Elaboration and Partial Defence", 1996, No Abstract
- "Drescher (Jack) - What are Personality Disorders?", External Link
- "Graham (George) - Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction - Preface", 1998
- "Hale (Sheila) - The Man Who Lost His Language", 2002, Book
- "Mitchell (David X.) - Almost everything I’d been told about my son’s autism was wrong", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Parkin (Alan) - Cognitive Neuropsychology as a Science", 1996, No Abstract
- "Parkin (Alan) - Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology", 1996 / 2003, Book
- "Parkin (Alan) - The Split Brain", 1996
- "Potter (Harry), Shears (Tara), Carlisle (Clare) & Broks (Paul) - Audio: How Can I Know Anything at All?", 2015, External Link
- "Robson (David) - ‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations", External Link
- "Schwyter (Jörg) - ‘Me talk funny’ - A stroke patient’s personal account", 2011, Internal PDF Link
- "Schwyter (Jörg) - Losing Language: Multilingualism and Aphasia", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) - Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?", 2015, External Link
- "Wilkes (Kathleen) - Mental Deficiency, Breakdown, and Insanity", 2003
- A further reading list might start with:-
- General:
- "American Psychiatric Association - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R)", 1987, Book
- "Andrewes (David) - Neuropsychology: From Theory to Practice", 2004, Book, Read = 1%
- "Bayne (Tim) & Levy (Neil) - Amputees By Choice: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Amputation", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Broks (Paul) - Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology", 2003, Book, Read = 2%
- "Davies (Martin) & Coltheart (Max) - Pathologies of Belief", 2000, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Davies (Martin), Coltheart (Max), Langdon (Robyn) & Breen (Nora) - Monothematic Delusions: Towards a Two-Factor Account", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Davies (Martin), Davies (Anne) & Coltheart (Max) - Anosognosia and the Two-factor Theory of Delusions", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Davis (Joseph E.) - Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery", 2020, Book, Read = 2%
- "Eccles (John) - The Language Centres of the Human Brain", 1977
- "Egan (Andy) & Elga (Adam) - I Can’t Believe I’m Stupid", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Ellis (Andrew) & Young (Andrew) - Human Cognitive Neuropsychology: A Textbook with Readings", 1988 / 1997, Book
- "Esch (Emily) - Review - 'Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspectives from Philosophy, Ethics, and Neuroscience", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Fazio (Sam) - The Enduring Self in People with Alzheimer's: Getting to the Heart of Individualized Care", 2008, Book, Read = 2%
- "Genova (Lisa) - Left Neglected", 2011, Book
- "Gillett (Grant) - You Always Were a Bastard", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Gold (Natalie) & Kyratsous (Michalis) - Self and identity in borderline personality disorder - Agency and mental time travel", 2017, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn) - Philosophical Psychopathology", 1994, Book, Read = 1%
- "James (Oliver) - Contented Dementia: 24-hour Wraparound Care for Lifelong Well-being", Book
- "Jaworska (Agnieszka) - Respecting the Margins of Agency: Alzheimer's Patients and the Capacity to Value", 1999, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Levitin (Daniel) - The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well", 2020, Book
- "Maibom (Heidi L.) - Moral Unreason: The Case of Psychopathy", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Mathiesen (Birgit Bork) & Weinryb (Robert M.) - Unstable Identity and Prefrontal Injury", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Mercer (Jean) - Explaining Personality: Soul Theory versus Behavior Genetics", 2015
- "Nichols (Shaun) & Stich (Stephen) - How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness", 2002, Read = 3%
- "Platts-Mills (Ben) - Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive", 2018, Book, Read = 1%
- "Poland (Jeffrey), Von Eckardt (Barbara) & Spaulding (Will) - Problems with the DSM Approach to Classifying Psychopathology", 1994, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Rapp (Brenda), Ed. - The Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology: What Deficits Reveal About the Human Mind", 2001, Book
- "Rashed (Mohammed Abouelleil) - In Defense of Madness: The Problem of Disability", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Reinvang (Ivor) - Amnestic Disorders And Their Role In Cognitive Theory", 1998, Internal PDF Link
- "Sacks (Oliver) - A Leg to Stand On", 2012, Book
- "Sacks (Oliver) - An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales", 1995, Book, Read = 2%
- "Sacks (Oliver) - The Abyss: Music and amnesia", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Sacks (Oliver) - The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", 1985, Book, Read = 7%
- "Seeger (Max) - Immunity and Self-Awareness", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Spitzer (Robert), Skodol (Andrew), Gibbon (Miriam) & Williams (Janet) - DSM-III Casebook: A Learning Companion to DSM III", 1981, Book
- "Tammet (Daniel) - Embracing the Wide Sky: A tour across the horizons of the mind", 2009, Book, Read = 1%
- "Tammet (Daniel) - Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives", 2012, Book, Read = 1%
- "Wearing (Deborah) - Forever Today - A Memoir of Love and Amnesia", 2005, Book, Read = 10%
- "Weisman (David) - Dissolution into Death: The Mind’s Last Symptoms Indicate Annihilation", 2015
- For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link19. Total papers = 1.
- For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
- Read: No items to list.
- Further Reading: No items to list.
- This is mostly a place-holder20.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 2:
- This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (06/07/2023 00:43:12).
- Link to Latest Write-Up Note.
Footnote 8:
- I have DSM3
→ "American Psychiatric Association - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R)", and
→ "Spitzer (Robert), Skodol (Andrew), Gibbon (Miriam) & Williams (Janet) - DSM-III Casebook: A Learning Companion to DSM III",
- But the latest edition is DSM5 (May 18, 2013).
- See Wikipedia: DSM.
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