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Understanding Insanity
The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism (New French Thought Series)The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism (New French Thought Series) by Vincent Descombes
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Cogent French Critique of the Evils of Cognitivism
Waking to Wonder: Wittgenstein's Existential Investigations (SUNY Series in Philosophy)Waking to Wonder: Wittgenstein's Existential Investigations (SUNY Series in Philosophy) by Gordon C.F. Bearn
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Later Wittgenstein's Thoughts on Meaning Transposed from Linguistic to Existential Domain
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology) by R. Laing
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Laing's Best Work - An Existential and Humane Take on Schizoid Modes of Existence
Philosophical ArgumentsPhilosophical Arguments by C Taylor
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One of Today's Finest Philosophers; this a Collection of Essays Critical of Contemporary Atomism and Cognitivism and Mechanism in the Human Sciences, along with Political and Ethical Reflection
The Concept of Mind (Penguin Modern Classics)The Concept of Mind (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gilbert Ryle
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Ryle's Still Very Valuable Critique of Mentalistic and Reified Accounts of our Mindedness
Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English TranslationPhilosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Simply - The Best
Being and Time : A Translation of Sein und Zeit (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Culture)Being and Time : A Translation of Sein und Zeit (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Culture) by Martin Heidegger
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Simply the Second Best - Brilliant - and Bloody Hard Work
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and ThoughtMadness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and Thought by Louis A. Sass
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Now Here's Someone Who THINKS about Schizophrenia When they Write About it
General Psychopathology: Volume 1: v. 1General Psychopathology: Volume 1: v. 1 by Karl Jaspers
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Someone Else Who Thinks First and Offers Explanations, If at All, only Afterwards
Wittgenstein on Freud and FrazerWittgenstein on Freud and Frazer by Frank Cioffi
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Delightful Prose Style, Rigorous Argument, Fascinating Material; Perhaps Unbalanced
Metaphors We Live byMetaphors We Live by by G Lakoff
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this book is a lovely big cup of hot strong coffee
Real CookingReal Cooking by Nigel Slater
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When not Philosophising, one has to eat, and this book tells you how to do it; brilliant luscious prose
Recovering Religious Concepts: Closing Epistemic Divides (Swansea Studies in Philosophy)Recovering Religious Concepts: Closing Epistemic Divides (Swansea Studies in Philosophy) by Dewi Zephaniah Phillips
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And when Not Eating, one needs to know how to pray...
Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The psychopathology of common sense (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry)Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The psychopathology of common sense (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry) by Giovanni Stanghellini
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A phenomenology of schizophrenia which aims to think bodily and social being together in the same breath
Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a SchizophrenicOperators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic by Barbara O'Brien
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Insightful first-person phenomenology of schizophrenia
Beyond all reasonBeyond all reason by Morag Coate
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Another helpful first person account of psychosis
Mind, Value and RealityMind, Value and Reality by J McDowell
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John McDowell - the man with the subtlest anti-cognitivist arguments
Radical Enactivism: Intentionality, Phenomenology and Narrative (Consciousness & Emotion Book Series)Radical Enactivism: Intentionality, Phenomenology and Narrative (Consciousness & Emotion Book Series)
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Classical cognitive science isn't much help in understanding self-disturbances, so lets give enactivism a go...
Evolving Psychosis (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses)Evolving Psychosis (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses)
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Thoughtful approach combining nuanced psychopathological understanding with psychotherapeutic wisdom
Psychoses (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses)Psychoses (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses) by Johan Cullberg
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Another book from the same series as 'Evolving Psychosis'. A humane touch.
Family and Multi-family Work with Psychosis (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses)Family and Multi-family Work with Psychosis (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses) by Gerd-Ragna Bloch Thorsen
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Looking at the whole family.
Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to SchizophreniaModels of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia
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Useful overview of some rather 'anti-psychiatric' thoughts, if a bit tainted by psychological positivism
Divided MindsDivided Minds by Pamela Spiro Wagner
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One twin 'with', the other 'without', schizophrenia.