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The self and its disorders /

Shaun Gallagher puts forward a pluralist account of the self, and a philosophical account of psychiatric disorders as disorders of the self. He argues that what have been seen as different selves - physical, social, private, extended - should rather be seen as variable factors or processes organized...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gallagher, Shaun, 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Self.
Psychiatry.
Moi (Psychologie)
Psychiatry
Self
Psychology.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Self and its Disorders
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1: A Pattern Theory of Self
  • 1.1 Pattern Theories
  • 1.2 Self-patterns
  • 1.3 Philosophical Problems
  • 1.4 Some Benefits of a Pattern Theory of Self
  • 2: The Nature of Patterns
  • 2.1 Dennett and Real Patterns
  • 2.2 Haugeland and the Elements
  • 2.3 Kelso and Dynamic Patterns
  • 2.4 From Mechanism to Dynamical Gestalt
  • 2.5 Enactive Constitution
  • 2.6 What's in a Self-pattern?
  • 2.7 A Note on Network Theory
  • 3: A Threefold Method for Studying Self-pattern Dynamics
  • 3.1 Mapping the Self-patternin a Meshed Architecture
  • 3.1.1 Intrinsic Control in Bodily Processes
  • 3.1.2 Affectivity
  • 3.1.3 The Horizontal Axis
  • 3.1.4 The Self-patternas a Meshed Architecture
  • 3.2 Imprecise Interventions
  • 3.3 Coordination Dynamics
  • 3.4 Autism as a Test Case
  • 3.4.1 ToM and Social Cognition
  • 3.4.2 ASD and Affectivity
  • 3.4.3 Motor Control
  • 3.4.4 Vertical and Horizontal Meshing
  • 3.5 Experimental and Therapeutic Interventions
  • 3.6 The Dynamics of ASD
  • 4: Dynamical Relations in the Self-pattern and Psychopathology
  • 4.1 Neural Patterns and the Self
  • 4.2 The Problem of Dynamical Relations
  • 4.3 What's the Story with Narrative?
  • 4.4 Psychopathology
  • 4.5 Predictive Processing and Self-patterns
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5: Disorder, Dissociation, and Disruption in Self-narrative
  • 5.1 Varieties of Identity
  • 5.2 How Narrative Connects
  • 5.3 Narrative Identity: Fiction or Reality
  • 5.4 Dissociation and Narrative Distance
  • 5.5 Narratives and Psychopathological Disorders
  • 5.6 Self-narrativein Schizophrenia
  • 5.6.1 Temporal Integration
  • 5.6.2 First-personSelf-reference
  • 5.6.3 Episodic-autobiographicalMemory
  • 5.6.4 Reflective Metacognition
  • 5.7 Narrative as a Forensic Tool: The Case of Borderline Personality Disorder
  • 6: Phenomenological Anchors: Mapping Experiences of Agency and Ownership
  • 6.1 Complexities in the Phenomenology of Bodily Movement
  • 6.2 Deflating the Senses of Ownership and Agency
  • 6.3 Reflective Judgments and Narratives about Agency
  • 6.4 Intersubjective and Social Constraints
  • 6.5 Disordered Experiences of Agency and Ownership in the Self-pattern
  • 6.5.1 Schizophrenia
  • 6.5.2 Experiences of Agency and Ownership in Other Disorders
  • 6.5.3 Agoraphobic Anxiety
  • 7: Autonomy in the Self-pattern: Implications for Deep Brain Stimulation and Affordance-basedTherapies
  • 7.1 DBS: An Altered Sense of Self and Personal Identity
  • 7.2 Deflationary versus Plural Models of the Self
  • 7.3 Relational Autonomy
  • 7.4 The Self-patternin the Post-DBS Ecology of Affordances
  • 7.5 The Therapeutic Reconstruction of Affordances
  • 8: Artificial Transformations of the Self-pattern
  • 8.1 Living the Enhanced Life
  • 8.2 Uploading the Whole Pattern