Institutsbibliothek für Psychologie

Preface . . IX 
Prologue . . 1 

PART ONE "Antisocial Personality", Values, Psychiatry . . 7 
1. Socratic Questions in Broadmoor . . 9 
2. The Contours of a Moral Landscape . . 18 
3. Childhood and After . . 38 
4. Interpreting This Landscape . . 67 
5. Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor . . 74 

PART TWO On Human Interpretation . . 87 
6. Hopes for the Future of Psychiatry . . 89 
7. "A Skill So Deeply Hidden in the Human Soul" . . 97 
8. Intuitive Interpretation . . 106 
9. Reflective Interpretation . . 115 

PART THREE Human Interpretation in Psychiatry . . 123 
10. "A Gulf Which Defies Description" . . 125 
11. Autism and Interpretation . . 130 
12. Interpreting Delusions . . 139 
13. Waking Dreams . . 161 

PART FOUR The Boundaries of Psychiatry . . 187 
14. The Need for Boundaries . . 189 
15. Personality and Sexuality . . 203 
16. Dysfunction? . . 211 
17. Harm . . 218 
18. What Is Autism? . . 228 
19. Crossing the Medical Boundary? . . 235 
20. Strands in a Good Human Life . . 240 

PART FIVE Agency, Control, and Responsibility . . 247 
21. Brain, Mind, and Agency . . 249  
22. Psychiatric Conditions and the Framework of Responsibility . . 262 
23. What Is Addiction? . . 275 
24. Unwilling Addiction as Diminished Control . . 283 
25. Character, Personality Disorder, and Responsibility . . 296 

PART SIX Identity . . 307 
26. The Sense of Self . . 309 
27. Moral Identity and Moral Injury . . 313 
28. Psychotherapy, Autonomy, and Self-Creation . . 329 
29. Entrapment in Eating Disorders . . 345 
30. Authenticity and Identity in Eating Disorders . . 354 
31. Dementia, Responsibility, and Identity . . 366 
32. Schizophrenia . . 372 
33. Self-Creation, Values, and Psychiatric Disorder . . 379 

Epilogue . . 388 

Notes . . 395 
Acknowledgments . . 419 
Index . . 423