From John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding to the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, madness has been viewed as a faulty mix of ideas by a deranged and violent imagination. This book shows that the relation of the imagination to pathological phenomena is as diverse and complex as the human condition itself. The imagination has the power not only to react to the world but to recreate it. And that power is double-edged: it is as destructive as it is creative.Recent advances in genetics and neuroscience have reinforced the empiricist approach in psychiatry, to the neglect of subjective aspects of the pathological experience. This book argues that the study of the imagination and pathology is long overdue, and that such an integration will be both theoretically and clinically fruitful. Because imagination can be creatively integrative as well as pathological, the book emphasizes the holistic, therapeutic dimension of imagination as well as its destructive effects. The areas discussed include philosophical perspectives on pathological imagination; pathological imagination and the psychodynamic tradition; and specific cases of pathological imagination in schizophrenia, juvenile pathology, artistic creativity (Vaslav Nijinsky), and religious expression (St. Anthony).
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"For a field that is so focused on human change, mental health's neglect of the imagination is a significant gap. Imagination and Its Pathologies should go a long way towards rectifying this omission." John Z. Sadler, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Psychiatric Education, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"Kenneth Richman's remarkable book brings a unique depth of scholarship to the task of illuminating the much overused concept of patient-centered care. The Richman-Budson theory of health, setting individual patients' goals in the context of the traditional medical focus on biological functioning, is a must for medical educators."--K.W.M. Fulford, Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Oxford
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James Morley is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
James Phillips is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.
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