Psychology and Non-sense: Schizophrenese as Example

Read, Rupert and Allesøe Christensen, Bo (2019) Psychology and Non-sense: Schizophrenese as Example. In: The Second Cognitive Revolution. Springer, 161–172. ISBN 978-3-030-26679-0

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Abstract

In this chapter we will focus on the relation between psychology as a discipline and how it understands nonsense. We will present a broad Wittgensteinian perspective inspired by the approaches of Peter Winch and Rom Harré, and use Wolcott’s approach to the ‘language’ of schizophrenia, schizophrenese, as an object of analysis. Using a therapeutic understanding of Wittgenstein, we will claim that Wolcott’s approach resembles a substantial (Wittgensteinian) interpretation of schizophrenese, debarring an actual (‘resolute’) understanding of the nonsensical character of schizophrenese. In the end, we conclude that Winchian and Harréan approaches help develop our sensitivities towards the diversity and uniqueness of cultural practices, but that it can be misleading to assimilate severe mental disturbance to the concepts of culture and language. Doing so misunderstands and covers over such disturbance, in the very act of seeming/seeking to understand it.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2019 15:30
Last Modified:	29 Jun 2025 01:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71820
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-030-26680-6_17

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