The Mind and Its Discontents: An Essay in Discursive Psychiatry

Abstract

Preface 1. Mind, brain, and psychiatry 2. Psychiatric categorization 3. The treatment of aliens 4. The depths of self: Consciousness and the unconscious 5. Thought in disarray 6. The black dog and the fire 7. Fidgets 8. I and the other robots 9. Moral insanity 10. 'Call me Legion, for we are many' 11. I eat therefore I am not 12. The meaning of hysteria 13. The psychopathologies of each are the psychopathologies of all 14. Concluding autobiographical postscript Bibliography Index