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Psychopathology

(Text as at 30/09/2020 01:16:19)

(For earlier versions of this Note, see the table at the end)

Plug Note¹

• Psychopathological cases are useful as real-life thought experiments² for teasing out issues in the topic of personal identity, as in psychology generally, though it’s strictly-speaking of more interest to those espousing varieties of the psychological view³ than to animalists⁴ 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 DSM₅ 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 language as a defining characteristic of persons⁶ – on some accounts.
• The same might be said of deficits of memory⁷ or of sense of self⁸ (autism).
• See also my Notes on:-
  → Clinical Observations⁹
  → Commissurotomy¹⁰
  → Multiple Personality Disorder¹¹, and
  → Wantons¹²
• For a Page of Links¹³ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁴ include the following:-
  1. "Aamodt (Caitlin) - On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect?", Aamodt
  2. "Baskin-Sommers (Arielle) - Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them?", Baskin-Sommers
  3. "Benson (Ophelia) - This Isn't My Body", Benson
  4. "Carruthers (Peter) - Autism as Mind-Blindness: an Elaboration and Partial Defence", Carruthers
  5. "Graham (George) - Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction - Preface", Graham
  6. "Hale (Sheila) - The Man Who Lost His Language", Hale
  7. "Potter (Harry), Shears (Tara), Carlisle (Clare) & Broks (Paul) - How Can I Know Anything at All?", Potter
  8. "Schwyter (Jörg) - ‘Me talk funny’ - A stroke patient’s personal account", Schwyter
  9. "Schwyter (Jörg) - Losing Language: Multilingualism and Aphasia", Schwyter
  10. "Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) - What Does It Mean to Be Me?", Smith
  11. "Svoboda (Elizabeth) - The kindled brain", Svoboda
  12. "Wilkes (Kathleen) - Mental Deficiency, Breakdown, and Insanity", Wilkes
• A further reading list might start with:-
  1. "American Psychiatric Association - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)", APA
  2. "Broks (Paul) - Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology", Broks
  3. "Eccles (John) - The Language Centres of the Human Brain", Eccles
  4. "Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn) - Philosophical Psychopathology", Graham
  5. "Maibom (Heidi L.) - Moral Unreason: The Case of Psychopathy", Maibom
  6. "Mercer (Jean) - Explaining Personality: Soul Theory versus Behavior Genetics", Mercer
  7. "Nichols (Shaun) & Stich (Stephen) - How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness", Nichols & Stich
  8. "Sacks (Oliver) - A Leg to Stand On", Sacks
  9. "Sacks (Oliver) - An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales", Sacks
  10. "Sacks (Oliver) - The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", Sacks
  11. "Seeger (Max) - Immunity and Self-Awareness", Seeger
  12. "Spitzer (Robert), Skodol (Andrew), Gibbon (Miriam) & Williams (Janet) - DSM-III Casebook: A Learning Companion to DSM III", Spitzer
  13. "Wearing (Deborah) - Forever Today - A Memoir of Love and Amnesia", Wearing
  14. "Weisman (David) - Dissolution into Death: The Mind’s Last Symptoms Indicate Annihilation", Weisman
• This is mostly a place-holder¹⁵.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 5:

• I have DSM3
  → "American Psychiatric Association - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)", 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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Printable Versions:

• Follow (this link) for level 0 (with reading list), and
• Follow (this link) for level 0.

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Table of the Previous 5 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
29/11/2018 21:04:19	4345	Psychopathology
11/03/2018 20:19:41	2284	Psychopathology
18/12/2010 19:58:05	360	Psychopathology
26/11/2007 23:25:26	348	Psychopathology
12/08/2007 10:17:46	80	Psychopathology

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
30/09/2020 01:16:19	Psychopathology	Clinical Observations

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Summary of Note Links from this Page

Animalism	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Clinical Observations	Commissurotomy	Memory
Multiple Personality Disorder	Note Links Explanation	Person	Plug Note Apologia	Psychological View
Self	Thought Experiments	Wantons	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Note Links to this Page

Aeon Papers, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24	Clinical Observations	Dennett - True Believers	Le Fanu - Doubts About Darwin	Multiple Personality Disorder
Psychological Continuity	Psychological Criterion	Psychology	Research - Focus	Unity of the Person

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Andrewes (David)	Neuropsychology: From Theory to Practice	Book	2, 3
Baggini (Julian)	Life-and-death thought experiments are correctly unsolvable	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Metaphysics of Everyday Life	Paper
Bee (Helen)	The Developing Child	Book	2
Benson (Ophelia)	This Isn't My Body	Paper		Yes
Blackmore (Susan)	Beyond the Body	Book
Bloom (Paul)	Introduction to Psychology	Paper
Carlson (Neil)	Physiology of Behavior	Book	2
Churchland (Paul)	The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: Philosophical Journey into the Brain	Book
Dennett (Daniel)	The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul: Introduction	Paper
Dennett (Daniel)	True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works	Paper		Yes
Eccles (John)	The Language Centres of the Human Brain	Paper
Fischer (Klaus P.)	Nazi Germany - A New History	Book
Freud (Sigmund)	Project for a Scientific Psychology	Paper
Gallagher (Shaun) & Shear (Jonathan), Eds.	Models of the Self	Book
Graham (George)	Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction - Preface	Paper	2	Yes
Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn)	An Introduction to Philosophical Psychopathology: Its Nature, Scope, and Emergence	Paper
Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn)	Mind and Mine	Paper
Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn)	Philosophical Psychopathology	Book	2, 3, 4, 5
Gray (Peter)	The Neural Control of Behavior	Paper
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: 2019+	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24	Yes
Hale (Sheila)	The Man Who Lost His Language	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Hayes (Christine)	Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)	Paper	2	Yes
James (William), Marty (Martin E.)	The Varieties of Religious Experience	Paper		Yes
Keehn (J.D.)	Animal Models for Psychiatry	Book	2
Lange (Rense) & Houran (James)	Giving Up the Ghost to Psychology	Paper
Le Fanu (James)	Doubts About Darwin	Paper		Yes
Maibom (Heidi L.)	Moral Unreason: The Case of Psychopathy	Paper	2, 3, 4
Mercer (Jean)	Explaining Personality: Soul Theory versus Behavior Genetics	Paper	2, 3
Myers (P.Z.)	Roy Varghese and the exploitation of Antony Flew	Paper		Yes
Nichols (Shaun) & Stich (Stephen)	How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness	Paper
Potter (Harry), Shears (Tara), Carlisle (Clare) & Broks (Paul)	How Can I Know Anything at All?	Paper		Yes
Rai (Tage)	How could they?	Paper		Yes
Schwyter (Jörg)	‘Me talk funny’ - A stroke patient’s personal account	Paper		Yes
Schwyter (Jörg)	Losing Language: Multilingualism and Aphasia	Paper		Yes
Shepherd (Richard)	Unnatural Causes	Book		Yes
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Clinical Observations	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Multiple Personality Disorder	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychopathology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Unity of the Person	Paper		Yes
Various	Peer Review of Pothos's 'The Rules Versus Similarity Distinction'	Paper	2
Wegner (Daniel)	Precis and Peer Review of 'The Illusion of Conscious Will'	Paper
Weisman (David)	Dissolution into Death: The Mind’s Last Symptoms Indicate Annihilation	Paper
Wilkes (Kathleen)	Mental Deficiency, Breakdown, and Insanity	Paper		Yes
Zahavi (Dan)	Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective	Paper	2

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Aamodt (Caitlin)	On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 15 February, 2017	Yes
American Psychiatric Association	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)	Book - Cited	American Psychiatric Association - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)	No
Bach (Kent)	Emotional Disorder and Attention	Paper - By Subtopic	Graham & Stephens - Philosophical Psychopathology	No
Baskin-Sommers (Arielle)	Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 18 July, 2017	Yes
Benson (Ophelia)	This Isn't My Body	Paper - Cited	From "Think" Website / The Philosopher's Magazine, 2005.	Yes
Bloom (Paul)	Introduction to Psychology	Paper - By Subtopic	Open Yale Courses, 2007	95%
Broks (Paul)	Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology	Book - Cited	Broks (Paul) - Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology	3%
Carruthers (Peter)	Autism as Mind-Blindness: an Elaboration and Partial Defence	Paper - Cited	Carruthers & Smith - Theories of Theories of Mind	Yes
Carruthers (Peter) & Smith (Peter), Eds.	Theories of Theories of Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Carruthers (Peter) & Smith (Peter), Eds. - Theories of Theories of Mind	Yes
Carruthers (Peter) & Smith (Peter), Eds.	Theories of Theories of Mind	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Cranford (Ronald E.)	The Persistent Vegetative State: The Medical Reality (Getting the Facts Straight)	Paper - By Subtopic	The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb. - Mar., 1988), pp. 27-32	No
Currie (Gregory)	Simulation-Theory, Theory-Theory, and the Evidence From Autism	Paper - By Subtopic	Carruthers & Smith - Theories of Theories of Mind	Yes
Damasio (Antonio), Ed.	The 'Scientific American' Book of the Brain: The Best Writing on Consciousness	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Damasio (Antonio), Ed. - The 'Scientific American' Book of the Brain: The Best Writing on Consciousness	No
Davis (Joseph E.)	Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery	Book - By Subtopic	Davis (Joseph E.) - Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery	3%
Davis (Joseph E.)	Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery	Paper - By Subtopic	Davis (Joseph E.) - Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery	5%
Eccles (John)	The Language Centres of the Human Brain	Paper - Cited	Popper & Eccles - The Self and Its Brain	No
Flanagan (Owen)	Multiple Identity, Character Transformation, and Self-Reclamation	Paper - By Subtopic	Graham & Stephens - Philosophical Psychopathology	No
Frith (Uta)	Autism	Paper - By Subtopic	Damasio - The "Scientific American" Book of the Brain: The Best Writing on Consciousness	No
Graham (George)	Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	17%
Graham (George)	Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction - Preface	Paper - Cited	Graham (George) - Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, Preface	Yes
Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn)	An Introduction to Philosophical Psychopathology: Its Nature, Scope, and Emergence	Paper - By Subtopic	Graham & Stephens - Philosophical Psychopathology	21%
Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn)	Mind and Mine	Paper - By Subtopic	Graham & Stephens - Philosophical Psychopathology	No
Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn)	Philosophical Psychopathology	Book - Cited	Graham (George) & Stephens (G. Lynn) - Philosophical Psychopathology	1%
Grandin (Temple)	Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports from My Life with Autism (Extract)	Paper - By Subtopic	Marcus (G.) - The Norton Psychology Reader, Chapter 16 ("Disorders")	No
Gregory (Richard), Ed.	Oxford Companion to the Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gregory (Richard), Ed. - Oxford Companion to the Mind	No
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: 2019+	Paper - Referencing	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon	Yes
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: A-B (& General)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: A-B (& General)	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: G-K	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: G-K	34%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Q-S	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	27%
Hale (Sheila)	The Man Who Lost His Language	Book - Cited	Hale (Sheila) - The Man Who Lost His Language	Yes
Hale (Sheila)	The Man Who Lost His Language	Paper - By Subtopic	Hale (Sheila) - The Man Who Lost His Language	Yes
Hayes (Christine)	Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)	Paper - By Subtopic	Open Yale Courses, 2007	Yes
Jonas (Rachel)	How does LSD induce short-term psychosis but long-term optimism?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 25 August, 2016	Yes
Lange (Rense) & Houran (James)	Giving Up the Ghost to Psychology	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 4, Chapter 23	No
Maibom (Heidi L.)	Moral Unreason: The Case of Psychopathy	Paper - Cited	Mind and Language, Volume 20, Number 2, April 2005, pp. 237-257(21)	No
Marcus (Gary)	The Norton Psychology Reader	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Marcus (Gary) - The Norton Psychology Reader	9%
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	15%
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	15%
Mercer (Jean)	Explaining Personality: Soul Theory versus Behavior Genetics	Paper - Cited	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 1, Chapter 3	No
Mitchell (David X.)	Almost everything I’d been told about my son’s autism was wrong	Paper - By Subtopic	New Statesman, 06 July 2017	Yes
Nasar (Sylvia)	A Beautiful Mind	Book - By Subtopic	Nasar (Sylvia) - A Beautiful Mind	2%
Nichols (Shaun) & Stich (Stephen)	How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness	Paper - Cited	Smith & Jokic - Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays	4%
Platts-Mills (Ben)	On Matthew’s mind	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 17 July, 2020	Yes
Platts-Mills (Ben)	Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive	Book - By Subtopic	Platts-Mills (Ben) - Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive	3%
Platts-Mills (Ben)	Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive	Paper - By Subtopic	Platts-Mills (Ben) - Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive	4%
Popper (Karl) & Eccles (John)	The Self and Its Brain	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	3%
Potter (Harry), Shears (Tara), Carlisle (Clare) & Broks (Paul)	How Can I Know Anything at All?	Paper - Cited	BBC Website	Yes
Sacks (Oliver)	A Leg to Stand On	Book - Cited	Sacks (Oliver) - A Leg to Stand On	No
Sacks (Oliver)	A Leg to Stand On	Paper - By Subtopic	Sacks (Oliver) - A Leg to Stand On	No
Sacks (Oliver)	An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales	Book - Cited	Sacks (Oliver) - An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales	2%
Sacks (Oliver)	An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales	Paper - By Subtopic	Sacks - An Anthropologist on Mars	3%
Sacks (Oliver)	Nothingness	Paper - By Subtopic	Gregory (Richard), Ed. - Oxford Companion to the Mind, pp. 564-5	No
Sacks (Oliver)	The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat	Book - Cited	Sacks (Oliver) - The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat	10%
Schwyter (Jörg)	‘Me talk funny’ - A stroke patient’s personal account	Paper - Cited	English Today No. 108, December 2011	Yes
Schwyter (Jörg)	Losing Language: Multilingualism and Aphasia	Paper - Cited	Babel: The Language Magazine, August 2013	Yes
Seeger (Max)	Immunity and Self-Awareness	Paper - Cited	Philosophers' Imprint, Vol. 15, No. 17, December 2015, pp. 1-19	8%
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper - Cited	BBC Website	Yes
Smith (Quentin) & Jokic (Aleksandar)	Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	15%
Spitzer (Robert), Skodol (Andrew), Gibbon (Miriam) & Williams (Janet)	DSM-III Casebook: A Learning Companion to DSM III	Book - Cited	Spitzer (Robert), Skodol (Andrew), Gibbon (Miriam) & Williams (Janet) - DSM-III Casebook: A Learning Companion to DSM III	No
Surovell (Jonathan)	But for the Grace of God: Abortion and Cognitive Disability, Luck and Moral Status	Paper - By Subtopic	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2017	6%
Svoboda (Elizabeth)	The kindled brain	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 03 October, 2017	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychopathology	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Van Gulick (Robert)	Deficit Studies and the Function of Phenomenal Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Graham & Stephens - Philosophical Psychopathology	No
Vinocour (Susan)	Criminally insane	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 08 June, 2020	Yes
Wearing (Deborah)	Forever Today - A Memoir of Love and Amnesia	Book - Cited	Wearing (Deborah) - Forever Today - A Memoir of Love and Amnesia	16%
Wegner (Daniel)	Precis and Peer Review of 'The Illusion of Conscious Will'	Paper - By Subtopic	Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2004), 27	49%
Weisman (David)	Dissolution into Death: The Mind’s Last Symptoms Indicate Annihilation	Paper - Cited	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 1, Chapter 4	No
Wilkes (Kathleen)	Mental Deficiency, Breakdown, and Insanity	Paper - Cited	Wilkes - Real People: Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments, Chapter 3	Yes
Wilkes (Kathleen)	Real People: Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes

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