Introduction

Alastair Morgan

Part One: Understanding and Representing Mental Distress

1. Feelings, Beliefs and Being Human

John Cromby

2. Towards a Critical Perspective on “Narrative Loss” in Schizophrenia

Phil Thomas

3. Constructions, Reconstructions and Deconstructions of Mental Health

Ian Parker

4. The Authority of Lived Experience

Alastair Morgan

5. Philosophy and Psyche: What can philosophy tell psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy?

Miles Clapha

Part Two: Symptoms in Society

6. The Role of Tricksters in Challenging Psychiatry

Helen Spandler

7. Writing From the Asylum: A Re-Assessment of Female Patients in the History of Psychiatry In France

Susannah Wilson

8. Mirrors of Shame: the Act of Shaming and the Spectacle of Female Shame

Jocelyn Catty

9. Symptoms in Society. The Cultural Significance of Fatigue in Victorian Society

Chris Ward

10. Artaud’s Madness: The Absence of Work?

Patrick Callaghan

Part Three: Critical Reflections on Practice

11. A Phenomenological Encounter: Prelude to a Mental Health Assessment in a Magistrates Cells

Dave R. Wilson

12. Opening up Space for Dissension: A Questioning Psychology

Bob Diamond

13. Clinical Psychology and Truth

David Smail