CONTENTS

        Preface

        Prologue

PART ONE “Antisocial Personality,” Values, Psychiatry

  1.   Socratic Questions in Broadmoor

  2.   The Contours of a Moral Landscape

  3.   Childhood and After

  4.   Interpreting This Landscape

  5.   Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor

PART TWO On Human Interpretation

  6.   Hopes for the Future of Psychiatry

  7.   “A Skill So Deeply Hidden in the Human Soul”

  8.   Intuitive Interpretation

  9.   Reflective Interpretation

PART THREE Human Interpretation in Psychiatry

10.   “A Gulf Which Defies Description”

11.   Autism and Interpretation

12.   Interpreting Delusions

13.   Waking Dreams

PART FOUR The Boundaries of Psychiatry

14.   The Need for Boundaries

15.   Personality and Sexuality

16.   Dysfunction?

17.   Harm

18.   What Is Autism?

19.   Crossing the Medical Boundary?

20.   Strands in a Good Human Life

PART FIVE Agency, Control, and Responsibility

21.   Brain, Mind, and Agency

22.   Psychiatric Conditions and the Framework of Responsibility

23.   What Is Addiction?

24.   Unwilling Addiction as Diminished Control

25.   Character, Personality Disorder, and Responsibility

PART SIX Identity

26.   The Sense of Self

27.   Moral Identity and Moral Injury

28.   Psychotherapy, Autonomy, and Self-Creation

29.   Entrapment in Eating Disorders

30.   Authenticity and Identity in Eating Disorders

31.   Dementia, Responsibility, and Identity

32.   Schizophrenia

33.   Self-Creation, Values, and Psychiatric Disorder

 

        Epilogue

 

        Notes

        Acknowledgments

        Index