Main description:

1. Uniquely brings together research from Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Philosophy to explain psychological concepts and disorders. 2. Brings together a multidisciplinary group of internationally recognized contributors. 3. Will be recommended further reading for courses on Cognitive and Clinical Psychology, as well as being of interest to clinicians and psychiatrists.

Contents:

Contributors

Preface

Part 1: Cognition in the Light of Psychopathology

A Preliminary Step: Understanding the Mental in Mental Disorders
Valentina Cardella

Mental Illnesses are Emotional Disorders
Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Reasoning and Goals: From Psychopathological Patients to Healthy People
Amelia Gangemi and Francesco Mancini

Reasoning, Trauma, and PTSD: Insights into the Emotion-Cognition Interaction
Isabelle Blanchette and Sara-Valerie Giroux

The Distinction between Altruistic and Deontological Guilt Feelings: Insights from Psychopathology
Francesco Mancini, Guyonne Rogier and Amelia Gangemi

The Narrative Self in Schizophrenia and its Cognitive Underpinnings
Ines Adornetti and Francesco Ferretti

Delusions and Pathologies of Belief: Making Sense of Conspiracy Beliefs via the Psychosis Continuum
Niall Galbraith

Part 2: Psychopathology and Human Nature

Normality at the Mirror of Madness: Historical Considerations on a Chimeric Boundary
Francesco Paolo Tocco

"There is a system in lunacy": Morality and Normativity in Mental Disorders
Leonarda Vaiana

The Dark Side of Language
Valentina Cardella and Alessandra Falzone

Identity, Narratives and Psychopathology: A Critical Perspective
Pietro Perconti

Bodies that Love Themselves and Bodies that Hate Themselves: The Role of Lived Experience in Body Integrity Dysphoria
Antonino Pennisi and Alessandro Capodici

Lost in Love: Why is it so Painful when Romance goes Wrong?
Domenica Bruni

Embodied and Disembodied Rationality: What Morbid Rationalism and Hyper-Reflexivity tell us about Human Intelligence and Intentionality

Giovanni Pennisi and Shaun Gallagher