The Measure Of Madness
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The Measure Of Madness
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Author : Philip Gerrans
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2014-07-03
The Measure Of Madness written by Philip Gerrans and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Philosophy categories.
Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of Madness, Philip Gerrans offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated explanations of delusion that interweave philosophical questions about the nature of belief and rationality with findings from cognitive science and neurobiology. Gerrans argues that once we fully describe the computational and neural mechanisms that produce delusion and the way in which conscious experience and thought depend on them, the concept of delusional belief retains only a heuristic role in the explanation of delusion. Gerrans proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. He argues that delusions represent the operation of the Default Mode Network (DMN)—the cognitive system that provides the raw material for humans' inbuilt tendency to provide a subjectively compelling narrative context for anomalous or highly salient experiences—without the “supervision” of higher cognitive processes present in the nondelusional mind. This explanation illuminates the relationship among delusions, dreams, imaginative states, and irrational beliefs that have perplexed philosophers and psychologists for over a century. Going beyond the purely conceptual and the phenomenological, Gerrans brings together findings from different disciplines to trace the flow of information through the cognitive system, and applies these to case studies of typical schizophrenic delusions: misidentification, alien control, and thought insertion. Drawing on the interventionist model of causal explanation in philosophy of science and the predictive coding approach to the mind influential in computational neuroscience, Gerrans provides a model for integrative theorizing about the mind.
The Measure Of Madness
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Author : Cheryl Paradis
language : en
Publisher: Citadel Press
Release Date : 2010-07-01
The Measure Of Madness written by Cheryl Paradis and has been published by Citadel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Psychology categories.
Enter the “fascinating” and frightening world of modern forensic psychology as experienced by one of the most respected practitioners in the field today (Robert K. Tanenbaum, New York Times–bestselling author). At the heart of countless crimes lie the mysteries of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology, and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career. Her riveting, sometimes shocking stories reveal the crucial and often surprising role forensic psychology plays in the pursuit of justice—in which the accused may truly believe their own bizarre lies, creating a world that pushes them into committing horrific, violent crimes. Join Dr. Paradis in a stark concrete cell with the indicted as she takes on the daunting task of mapping the suspect’s madness or exposing it as fakery. Take a front-row seat in a tense, packed courtroom, where her testimony can determine an individual’s fate—or if justice will be truly served. The criminal thought process has never been so intimately revealed—or so darkly compelling—as in this “excellent and entertaining” journey into the darkest corners of the human mind (Booklist).
The Measure Of Madness
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Author : Cheryl Paradis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955-11-18
The Measure Of Madness written by Cheryl Paradis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955-11-18 with categories.
Forensic psychologist Paradis illustrates how fascinating yet puzzling the inner workings of the human mind can be, while illuminating the crucial role forensic psychology plays in the judicial system.
A Measure Of Madness
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Author : Gordon Merrick
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Release Date : 1986
A Measure Of Madness written by Gordon Merrick and has been published by Grand Central Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Gay men categories.
Phil comes to Greece to forget his self-destructive affair with Alex, but his encounter with the arrogant, virile, and beautiful Greek youth Manoli plunges him into a web of passion, jealousy, and violence
Measurement Madness
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Author : Dina Gray
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-01-27
Measurement Madness written by Dina Gray and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-27 with Business & Economics categories.
A clearer, more accurate performance management strategy Over the past two decades, performance measurement has profoundly changed societies, organizations and the way we live and work. We can now access incredible quantities of data, display, review and report complex information in real time, and monitor employees and processes in detail. But have all these investments in collecting, analysing and reporting data helped companies, governments and people perform better? Measurement Madness is an engaging read, full of anecdotes so peculiar you'll hardly believe them. Each one highlights a performance measurement initiative that went wrong, explains why and – most importantly – shows you how to avoid making the same mistake yourself. The dangers of poorly designed performance measurement are numerous, and even the best how-to guides don't explain how to avoid them. Measurement Madness fills in the gap, showing how to ensure you’re measuring the right things, rewarding the behaviours that deserve rewarding, and interpreting results in a way that will improve things rather than complicate them. This book will help you to recognize, correct and even avoid common performance measurement problems, including: Measuring for the sake of measuring Assuming that measurement is an instant fix for performance issues Comparing sets of data that have nothing in common and hoping to learn something Using targets and rewards to promote certain behaviours, and achieving exactly the opposite ones. Reading Measurement Madness will enable you to design a simple, effective performance measurement system, which will have the intended result of creating value in your organization.
Techniques Of Fiction Writing
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Author : Leon Z. Surmelian
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1968
Techniques Of Fiction Writing written by Leon Z. Surmelian and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Mirrors Of Madness
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Author : Bruce Luske
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Mirrors Of Madness written by Bruce Luske and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Medical categories.
Mirrors of Madness depicts the social-psychological processes and institutional consequences of psychiatric staffs experience of ""closet insanity"" (private worries about theirown social and psychological competence) and ""reverse role modeling"" (identification with their labeled psychotic clients' public behavior).The book shows how, in attempting to ward off the threat involved in these processes, staffs tend to be more vigilant of their own behavior while redirecting their insecurities toward their clients in the form of derogatory humor in psychiatric evaluations. These and other activities are shown to be inhibiting factors in the rehabilitative function of social control agencies.
Madness As Methodology
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Author : Ken Gale
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-23
Madness As Methodology written by Ken Gale and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-23 with Social Science categories.
Madness as Methodology begins with the following quotation from Deleuze and Guattari, ‘Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.’ This quotation firmly expresses the book’s intention to provide readers with radical and innovative approaches to methodology and research in the arts, humanities and education practices. It conceptualises madness, not as a condition of an individual or particular being, but rather as a process that does things differently in terms of creativity and world making. Through a posthuman theorising as practice, the book emphasises forms of becoming and differentiation that sees all bodies, human and nonhuman, as acting in constant, fluid, relational play. The book offers a means of breaking through and challenging the constraints and limitations of Positivist approaches to established research practice. Therefore, experimentation, concept making as event and a going off the rails are offered as necessary means of inquiry into worlds that are considered to be always not yet known. Rather than using a linear chapter structure, the book is constructed around Deleuze and Guattari’s use of an assemblage of plateaus, providing the reader with a freedom of movement via multiple entry and exit points to the text. These plateaus are processually interconnected providing a focal emphasis upon topics apposite to this madness as methodology. Therefore, as well as offering a challenge to the constraining rigours of conventional research practices, these plateaus engage with topics to do with posthuman thinking, relationality, affect theory, collaboration, subjectivity, friendship, performance and the use of writing as a method of inquiry.
The Social Constructions And Experiences Of Madness
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Author : Monika dos Santos
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-02-01
The Social Constructions And Experiences Of Madness written by Monika dos Santos and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Psychology categories.
This book describes how the societal understandings of madness are central to the problem of mental illness, and how this has far reaching effects on those who are said to have a mental disorder, how they perceive themselves, and treatment.
Madness In International Relations
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Author : Alison Howell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-05-30
Madness In International Relations written by Alison Howell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-30 with Political Science categories.
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and sovereign, at other times disciplinary, and at still other times benevolent, though not benign. In each case a ‘diagnostic competition’ is traced, that is, a contestation over how best to diagnose and treat the population in question. The book examines the populations of Guantánamo Bay, post-conflict societies and western militaries, identifying how these diagnostic competitions ultimately rest on shared assumptions about the value of psychology and psychiatry in managing global security, about the value of achieving security through mental health governance, and ultimately about the medicalization of security. This work will be of great interest to all scholars of International relations, critical theory and security studies.