Radical enactivism and narrative practice: implications for psychopathology

D. Hutto

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Abstract

Many psychopathological disorders – clinical depression, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) – are commonly classified as disorders of the self. In an intuitive sense this sort of classification is unproblematic. There can be no doubt that such disorders make a difference to one’s ability to form and maintain a coherent sense of oneself in various ways. However, any theoretically rigourous attempt to show that they relate to underlying problems with say, such things as minimal selves or, even, so-called narrative selves – where these latter constructs are invoked to do genuine explanatory work – would require, inter alia, philosophical clarification of what it is that one is precisely committed to in talking of such things (if things they be). It would also require justification for believing in selves of these various kinds.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Embodied Self : Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders
PublisherSchattauer GmbH
Pages43-66
ISBN (Print)978-3794527915
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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