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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797532303321

Titolo

Disturbed consciousness : new essays on psychopathology and theories of consciousness / / edited by Rocco J. Gennaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-33022-9

0-262-33021-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Philosophical psychopathology

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Psychology, Pathological

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Psychopathologies and Theories of Consciousness: An Overview; 2 Jaspers' Dilemma: The Psychopathological Challenge to Subjectivity Theories of Consciousness; 3 Somatoparaphrenia, Anosognosia, and Higher-Order Thoughts; 4 Consciousness, Action, and Pathologies of Agency; 5 Self, Belonging, and Conscious Experience: A Critique of Subjectivity Theories of Consciousness; 6 From Darwin to Freud: Confabulation as an Adaptive Response to Dysfunctions of Consciousness; 7 Self-Deception and the Dolphin Model of Cognition

8 Disorders of Unified Consciousness: Brain Bisection and Dissociative Identity Disorder9 Altogether Now-Not! Integration Theories of Consciousness and Pathologies of Disunity; 10 Consciousness despite Network Underconnectivity in Autism: Another Case of Consciousness without Prefrontal Activity?; 11 A Schizophrenic Defense of a Vehicle Theory of Consciousness; 12 Prediction Error Minimization, Mental and Developmental Disorder, and Statistical Theories of Consciousness; 13 Passivity Experience in Schizophrenia

14 From a Sensorimotor Account of Perception to an Interactive Approach to PsychopathologyContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"In Disturbed consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine



various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors--some of them discussing or defending their own theoretical work--consider not only how a theory of consciousness can account for a specific psychopathological condition but also how the characteristics of a psychopathology might challenge such a theory. Thus one essay defends the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness against the charge that it cannot account for somatoparaphrenia (a delusion in which one denies ownership of a limb). Another essay argues that various attempts to explain away such anomalies within subjective theories of consciousness fail. Other essays consider such topics as the application of a model of unified consciousness to cases of brain bisection and dissociative identity disorder; prefrontal and parietal underconnectivity in autism and other psychopathologies; self-deception and the self-model theory of subjectivity; schizophrenia and the vehicle theory of consciousness; and a shift in emphasis away from an internal (or brainbound) approach to psychopathology to an interactive one. Each essay offers a distinctive perspective from the intersection of philosophy, consciousness research, and psychiatry"--MIT CogNet.