Clinical Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2023

To pre-empt: my thought is that whilst ignoring frames is naive, so is taking "frame" to be a master concept for the interrogation of psychiatric judgement. is to say that if that over which the psychiatric frame precisely ranges can be picked out without using the frame concept, then it can happily be seen as an optional extra.

Psychiatry 64

Psychiatry Psychiatric Schizophrenia Adoption 64

Clinical Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2022

And then later, in one of her first clinical psychology lessons, she learns about the 'paranoid schizophrenia' diagnosis: "Oh my God", she thinks, "that's my dad! Thus Shaw eagerly takes up Al-Khalili's suggestion that the illumination came because "nobody had labelled" his paranoid behaviour 'schizophrenia' before.)

Schizophrenia 52

Schizophrenia Psychiatric Psychology Adoption 52

Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her.

Schizophrenia 52

Schizophrenia Psychiatry Interviewing Psychology 52