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dc.contributor.author | Metz, Thaddeus![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-21T05:54:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-21T05:54:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I aim to progress towards the philosophical goal of ascertaining what, if anything, all mental illnesses have in common, attempting to unify a large sub-set of those with a relational or interpersonal dimension. One major claim is that, if we want a promising theory of mental illness, we must go beyond the dominant western accounts of mental illness/health, which focus on traits intrinsic to a person such as pain/pleasure, lethargy/ liveliness, fragmentation/integration, and falsehood/authenticity. A second major claim is that the relational facets of mental illness are plausibly understood theoretically in terms of a person’s inability to identify with others or exhibit solidarity with them, relational values salient in the African philosophical tradition. I show that these two extrinsic properties explain several intuitive instances of mental illness well, including, amongst several others, being abusive, psychopathic, narcissistic, histrionic, paranoid, and phobic. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | dm2022 | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://hrcak.srce.hr/synthesis-philosophica?lang=en | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Metz, Thaddeus. (2021). A Relational Theory of Mental Illness: Lacking Identity and Solidarity with Others. Synthesis Philosophica. 71. 65-81. doi: 10.21464/sp36105. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0352-7875 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1848-2317 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.21464/sp36105 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87243 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Croatian Philosophical Society | en_US |
dc.rights | Article is published in compliance with the CC BY-NC 4.0 License (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License). | en_US |
dc.subject | Intrinsic | en_US |
dc.subject | Extrinsic | en_US |
dc.subject | Mental health | en_US |
dc.subject | Mental illness | en_US |
dc.subject | Neurosis | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy of psychology | en_US |
dc.subject | Relational disorders | en_US |
dc.subject | Relational values | en_US |
dc.title | A relational theory of mental illness – lacking identity and solidarity with others | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |