Rachel Cooper

2 papers in the library · publishing 2012-2017

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Where's the problem? Considering Laing and Esterson's account of schizophrenia, social models of disability, and extended mental disorder.

Theoretical medicine and bioethics August 1, 2017 Rachel Cooper

In this article, I compare and evaluate R. D. Laing and A. Esterson's account of schizophrenia as developed in Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964), social models of disability, and accounts of extended mental disorder. These accounts claim that some putative disorders (schizophrenia, disability, certain mental disorders) should not be thought of as reflecting biological or psychological...

DOI: 10.1007/s11017-017-9413-0 Full text Extended mind Internal location R. d. laing Schizophrenia

Psychiatric Classification and Subjective Experience

Emotion Review April 1, 2012 Rachel Cooper

This article does not directly consider the feelings and emotions that occur in mental illness. Rather, it concerns a higher level methodological question: To what extent is an analysis of feelings and felt emotions of importance for psychiatric classification? Some claim that producing a phenomenologically informed descriptive psychopathology is a prerequisite for serious taxonomic endeavor....

DOI: 10.1177/1754073911430139