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    The Self and its Disorders by Gallagher, Shaun;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 2 January 2024

    • ISBN 9780198873068
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages356 pages
    • Size 240x166x28 mm
    • Weight 716 g
    • Language English
    • 650

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    Short description:

    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 in a certain pattern: this pattern is the self.

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    Long description:

    Shaun Gallagher offers an account of psychopathologies as disorders of the self. The Self and its Disorders develops an interdisciplinary approach to an 'integrative' perspective in psychiatry. In contrast to some integrative approaches that focus on narrow brain-based conceptions, or on symptomology, this book takes its bearings from embodied and enactive conceptions of human experience. Gallagher offers an understanding of the self as a pattern of processes that include bodily, experiential, affective, cognitive, intersubjective, narrative, ecological and normative factors. He provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of self-pattern; then, drawing on phenomenological, developmental, clinical and experimental evidence, he proposes a method to study the effects of psychopathologies on the self-pattern. The book includes specific discussions of schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, depression, borderline personality disorder, and autism, among other disorders, as well as the effects of torture and solitary confinement. It also explores a variety of issues that relate to therapeutic approaches, including deep brain stimulation, meditation-based interventions, and the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    A pattern theory of self
    The nature of patterns
    A threefold method for studying the self-pattern
    Dynamical relations in the self-pattern
    Disorder, dissociation and disruption in self-narrative
    Phenomenological anchors: Mapping experiences of agency and ownership
    Autonomy in the self-pattern: Implications for deep brain stimulation and affordance-based therapies
    Artificial transformations of the self-pattern
    Mindfulness in the self-pattern
    The cruel and unusual phenomenologies of torture and solitary confinement
    Bibliography

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