Hearing Voices : Contesting the Voice of Reason Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	The Psychiatric Architecture	15
	The building of black boxes	16
	The 'interaction' of the biological with the social	18
	What does it mean to hallucinate?	19
	The conceptual armoury	20
	The source - where are the voices coming from?	21
	Vividness	22
	Control	22
	Duration	23
	The type 2 syndrome	25
	When is a hallucination not a hallucination?	27
	The psychiatric interview	30
	The enfeebled personality	31
	The experiment	33
2	The Social and the Psychological	38
	Conditions of risk	38
	Activities of daily living	40
	Changing our minds	43
	Hallucinations as a disorder of consciousness	44
	Hallucination as an example of 'inner speech'	46
	Hallucination as a continuum of 'normal' mental imagery	48
	The social psychology of hallucinations	52
	Transcultural psychiatry	53
	The phenomenology of perception	57
	Role-strain	59
	Beyond roles to attitudes	63
3	Critical Psychology	69
	Beyond the skin	69
	The vagaries of social constructionism	70
	Discourse and the psychological	74
	The old tired theme of social constructionism	78
	The historicity of experience	80
	Technologies of truth	81
	The analytic tools	88
	Embodiment	89
4	Contesting the Voice of Reason	94
	Aberrations of mind	98
	Hermeneutics of voices	99
	Is 'man' a moral being? The age of sensibility	103
	Deception as a mental state	106
	The conditions of possibility	110
	Moral education, moral reform and moral therapy	113
	The hesitation	115
5	Conditions of Degeneracy	120
	The naturalisation of responsibility	122
	Crime and responsibility	126
	Conditions for degeneracy	129
	The asylum	130
	Clinical medicine	130
	Unemployment, poverty and conditions of life	132
	Madness as an expression of degeneracy	134
	The imagination	135
	The science of psychiatry	136
	Archaism in the twentieth century	139
	Beyond the corporeal	140
6	The Invention of the Neuroses	148
	Reaction types	149
	The significance of 'hearing voices'	151
	Psychoses and psychoneuroses in war	155
	Traumatic neuroses	158
	Beyond sensibility - a journey to enlightenment	160
	The making of a mystic	163
	Doors in the wall	167
	The counter culture	169
	The emergence of a psychological space	171
	To conclude	172
7	Techniques of the Hallucinatory Self	177
	Move to consumption	178
	Technologies of the self	182
	History of psychiatry	186
	The significance of hearing voices	187
	The hearing Voices Network	188
	Coping with voices	188
	Blackmind	190
	Techniques of the hallucinatory self	192
	Working with voices	197
	Understanding your experiences	199
	A voice-profile	200
	When symptoms persist	201
	The voice to reason	203
	Situated ethics	204
8	Embodiment and Experience	206
	Embodiment	210
	How do you feel?	214
	Practices of health and illness	218
	You have the power to change!	224
	Embodiment and biology	226
9	Conclusion: 'imagining the Future'	230
	Notes	242
	Bibliography	244
	Index	263