Tim Thornton

Tim Thornton is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the School of Nursing, University of Central Lancashire. As well as contemporary philosophy of thought and language, his research mainly concerns conceptual issues in mental healthcare, and he has published papers on clinical judgement, idiographic and narrative understanding, the interpretation of psychopathology and recovery, as well as numerous books. He was a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry and is a senior editor of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology.

Books by Tim Thornton

Tim Thornton

Coproduction: Towards equality in mental healthcare

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This collection of chapters casts a critical eye on the concept of coproduction in our national mental health and learning disability services. Is it naive idealism? A one-way road to co-optioning the independent user/survivor movement? A major challenge to the hegemony of the psychiatric profession? The next progressive step in the shift away from medicalised care? Or is it…

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