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Hearing voices, embodiment and experience, Lisa Blackman

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Hearing voices

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Lisa Blackman

embodiment and experience

Acknowledgements -- Introduction viii -- Unravelling the mystery of schizophrenia 1 -- When symptoms persist 3 -- Empowering people who hear voices 5 -- Doing critical psychology 6 -- 1 The Psychiatric Architecture 15 -- The building of black boxes 16 -- The 'interaction' of the biological with the social 18 -- What does it mean to hallucinate? 19 -- The conceptual armoury 20 -- The source - where are the voices coming from? 21 -- Vividness 22 -- Control 22 -- Duration 23 -- The type 2 syndrome 25 -- When is a hallucination not a hallucination? 27 -- The psychiatric interview 30 -- The enfeebled personality 31 -- The experiment 33 -- 2 The Social and the Psychological 38 -- Conditions of risk 38 -- Activities of daily living 40 -- Changing our minds 43 -- Hallucinations as a disorder of consciousness 44 -- Hallucination as an example of 'inner speech' 46 -- Hallucination as a continuum of 'normal' mental imagery 48 --^The social psychology of hallucinations 52 -- Transcultural psychiatry 53 -- The phenomenology of perception 57 -- Role-strain 59 -- Beyond roles to attitudes 63 -- 3 Critical Psychology 69 -- Beyond the skin 69 -- The vagaries of social constructionism 70 -- Discourse and the psychological 74 -- The old tired theme of social constructionism 78 -- The historicity of experience 80 -- Technologies of truth 81 -- The analytic tools 88 -- Embodiment 89 -- 4 Contesting the Voice of Reason 94 -- Aberrations of mind 98 -- Hermeneutics of voices 99 -- Is 'man' a moral being? The age of sensibility 103 -- Deception as a mental state 106 -- The conditions of possibility 110 -- Moral education, moral reform and moral therapy 113 -- The hesitation 115 -- 5 Conditions of Degeneracy 120 -- The naturalisation of responsibility 122 -- Crime and responsibility 126 -- Conditions for degeneracy 129 -- The asylum 130 -- Clinical medicine 130 -- Unemployment, poverty and conditions of life 132 --^Madness as an expression of degeneracy 134 -- The imagination 135 -- The science of psychiatry 136 -- Archaism in the twentieth century 139 -- Beyond the corporeal 140 -- 6 The Invention of the Neuroses 148 -- Reaction types 149 -- The significance of 'hearing voices' 151 -- Psychoses and psychoneuroses in war 155 -- Traumatic neuroses 158 -- Beyond sensibility - a journey to enlightenment 160 -- The making of a mystic 163 -- Doors in the wall 167 -- The counter culture 169 -- The emergence of a psychological space 171 -- 'To conclude 172 -- 7 'I'echniques of the Hallucinatory Self 177 -- Move to consumption 178 -- Technologies of the self 182 -- History of psychiatry 186 -- The significance of hearing voices 187 -- The Hearing Voices Network 188 -- Coping with voices 188 -- Blackmind 190 -- Techniques of the hallucinatory self 192 -- Working with voices 197 -- Understanding your experiences 199 -- A voice-profile 200 -- When symptoms persist 201 -- The voice of reason 203 --^Situated ethics 204 -- 8 Embodiment and Experience 206 -- Embodiment 210 -- How do you feel? 214 -- Practices of health and illness 218 -- You have the power to change! 224 -- Embodiment and biology 226 -- 9 Conclusion: 'Imagining the Future' 230 -- Notes 242 -- Bibliography 244 -- Index 263