Resources
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Assessment
Essays
Given the interdisciplinary nature of the module, you are required to develop an essay topic in consultation with me before Week 10. Please make sure you have agreed an essay topic with me before you start to work on it. You will find a range of resources available at the bottom of this page soon. I will be adding to this through the term. Use the resources, the reading, and class presentations and discussions to identify an area of interest. I will be happy to work with you to develop this into an essay topic. A copy of the University's marking scale is available in the IATL Undergraduate Student Handbook 2018/19. Essays must be submitted electronically, as Word documents, by the deadline. The link for submitting your essays is: https://tabula.warwick.ac.uk/coursework/
Reflective Journals
Part of the assessment consists of a Reflective Journal. You are strongly advised to keep notes for this after each session. There is some general guidance on Reflective Journals in the IATL Student Handbook. Further guidance on completing your Journal is contained in this word document: Reflective Journals Guidance
Journals must be submitted electronically, as Word documents, by the deadline. The link for submitting your journals is: https://tabula.warwick.ac.uk/coursework/
Reading
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Week Two: 1. Richard P. Bentall and Filippo Varese (2013) Psychotic Hallucinations. In Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, ed. Fiona Macpherson and Dimitris Platchias (2013), pp. 65-86 2. V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee (1998) Phantoms in the Brain. Chapter 8, "The Unbearable Likeness of Being", pp. 158-168. 3. Lisa Bortolotti and Kengo Miyazono (2015) Recent Work on the Nature and Development of Delusions. Philosophy Compass Vol. 10 No. 9 pp. 636-645. Further reading: Dominic ffytche (2013) The Hallucinating Brain: Neurobiological Insights Into the Nature of Hallucinations. In Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, ed. Fiona Macpherson and Dimitris Platchias (2013), pp. 45-63 |
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Week Four Monday Group Required Reading: 1. David A. Snowdon et al., ‘Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life. Findings from the Nun Study’, Journal of the American Medical Association, 275 (1996), pp. 528-532 2. David A. Snowdon, Aging with Grace. The Nun Study and the Science of Old Age: How We Can All Live Longer, Healthier and More Vital Lives (London: Fourth Estate, 2002), pp. 109-117 3. Peter J. Whitehouse with Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer’s. What You Aren’t Being Told about Today’s Most Dreaded Diagnosis (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), pp. 244-249 4. Christine Bryden (formerly Boden), Who Will I Be When I Die? [1998] (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012), pp. 30-48 and 60-64 Further reading: Stephen Katz and Barbara L. Marshall, ‘Tracked and fit: FitBits, brain games, and the quantified aging body’, Journal of Aging Studies, 45(2018), pp. 63-68 Martina Zimmermann, The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 7-12. The book is available open access and you can download it free, using the following link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-44388-1 Martina's slides. Tuesday Group Anne-Marie's slides. |
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Week Five Christoph Hoerl (2013) Jaspers on Explaining and Understanding in Psychiatry. In 'One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology', Edited by Giovanni Stanghellini and Thomas Fuchs, OUP 2013, pp.107-120. Quotes from Jaspers' General Psychopathology on explaining and understanding. My slides. |
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Week 7
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Week 8 Catriona Mackenzie and Jacqui Poltera (2010) Narrative Integration, Fragmented Selves, and Autonomy. Hypatia Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 31-54 Excerpt from Chapter One of Elyn Saks (2007) The Center Cannot Hold, pp. 5-14 Jonathan Nolan (2001) Memento Mori, Esquire magazine. My slides |
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Week 9 My slides |
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Week 10 My slides |
Additional Resources
- Madness and Care in the Community: A Medieval Perspective by David and Christine Roffe (1995). British Medical Journal Vol. 311, No. 7021, pp. 1708-1712. The Roffes provide a fascinating glimpse into a particular case, that of Emma de Beston, in 1383, with details of her circumstances, her assessment, and the provisions made for her care.
- Madness and Its Institutions by Roy Porter (1992), from Medicine In Society: Historical Essays. Edited by Andrew Wear. CUP. In this wide-ranging chapter, Roy Porter sketches a social history of asylums in Europe, providing some thought-provoking analysis along the way.
- The Administration of Insanity in England 1800 to 1870 by Elaine Murphy (2003), chapter 14 from The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965. Edited by Roy Porter and David Wright. 2003. CUP. This is a short but dense account of the complexities of the asylum system in the 19th century, concentrating on the south of England.
- Psychiatry and the State in Britain by Hugh Freeman (2005), from Psychiatric Cultures Compared: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century, edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Harry Oosterhuis, Joost Vijselaar and Hugh Freeman, 2005, Amsterdam University Press. This is an excellent account by the late psychiatrist and historian Hugh Freeman of the provision of mental health care by the state, focusing on the twentieth century.
- James Davies, a British medical anthropologist and psychotherapist, takes a critical look at psychiatry in his book Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm than Good (2013). The book's preface describes his aims for the book, and Chapter One describes the genesis of the widely used American manual of psychiatric disorders, the DSM, and touches on the issues of psychiatric reliability and validity.
- In 'The Biopolitics of Defining Mental Disorder' (chapter 4 of Making the DSM-5: Concepts and Controversies, edited by Joel Paris and James Phillips, (2013) Springer) the American psychiatrist and theologian Warren Kinghorn argues that the concept of 'mental disorder' first included in DSM III, and included in subsequent editions of the DSM, serves the political function of defining the clinical domain of psychiatry.
- Kenneth Kendler article on the mind-body problem from the American Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 158 Issue 7 (2001).