Schizophrenia and Human Nature
© 2002, Jason Stuart Ratcliff
Contents:
Part 1: Stigma and Cultural Exclusion
Everyone’s Experience With Stigma
Part 2: Schizophrenia and Human Nature
Schizophrenia and Political Liberalism
Suffering Before the Incomprehensible
The World Viewed Through a Conceptual Framework
The Egocentric World of the Schizophrenic
Application of the Hypothesis to Other Schizophrenics
Part 3: The Blessings of Madness
Ought We to Cure Schizophrenia?
*Note: I have deleted the chapter "Meaning and Humor" in Part 2, as well as the entirety of "Part 4: Analytic Implications," consisting of the chapters "Conceptions and Things in Themselves" and "Mysticism and Logic", because of lingering doubts about the validity of the ideas these chapters contain.*