On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind Gipps Richard G. T.
Breaking away from standard approaches to psychotic thought, philosopher and clinical psychologist Richard G. T. Gipps reclaims the idea that there is something fundamentally incomprehensible about…
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Breaking away from standard approaches to psychotic thought, philosopher and clinical psychologist Richard G. T. Gipps reclaims the idea that there is something fundamentally incomprehensible about delusion.Carefully acknowledging the ways in which psychosis can be made intelligible, Gipps reveals the limitations of a rationally-intelligible response to disturbing existential thought. Without ever losing sight of the fact that we are talking about the suffering of real people, he introduces psychotic thought as an unmooring from the world that causes reason's practical footing to falter. Thoughtfully combining first-person memoirs and clinical material, Gipps pinpoints the ways thought and experience can involve a loss of reason and indeed of one's mind.This understanding of psychotic thought as the total collapse of reality allows us to better grasp what it means to suffer