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Book review
Nature and narrative: an introduction to the new philosophy of psychiatry
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Edited by Bill Fulford, Katherine Morris, John Sadler, and Giovanni Stanghellini. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, pp 274, £29.95. ISBN 0-19-852611-3
Many of my colleagues are puzzled by the recent interest in philosophy by psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals. Paul Appelbaum, in a foreword to this book, suggests that philosophical phenomenology has brought “mental health professionals closer to the experience of their patients, and holds the key to …