On understanding madness

A paradoxical view

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21591749
AutoresWouter Kusters (Kusters Tekst en Media, Reeuwijk, Netherlands, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume36
Fascículo8
Páginas1521-1542
Data de publicação2023-11-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09515089.2022.2146491
OpenAlexW4309191891
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas13

In this article, I will examine the question why it is so difficult to understand madness. First, I will examine what the third-person approach of psychosis or madness has to offer, and where its limitations lie with respect to its proper understanding. Next I will examine if and how the first-person perspective on madness contributes to our understanding. I will demonstrate that there is a stalemate between third- and first-person perspectives, which on the one hand hinders a free sight on madness, but which is on the other hand exemplary of the problem that is presented by madness. This turns out to be a paradox that haunts both the concept and experience of madness itself, as well as those who try to understand it. In the fourth section, I will unpack some of the operations of the paradox as it is found both in philosophy and madness, both by their producers as by their consumers. In the fifth section, I will tentatively sketch (im)possibilities of escaping paradoxes

Epistemology · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Sight · Sketch · Stalemate · Computer Science · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications