Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives

Section I / American Legal Perspectives on Insanity: Some Roots in the Nineteenth Century.- American Medico-Legal Traditions and Concepts of Mental Health: The Nineteenth Century.- Philosophical Reflections in the Nineteenth Century Medicolegal Discussion.- Section II / Mental Illness and Mental Complaints: Some Conceptual Presuppositions.- How Much Neurosis Should We Bear?.- Psychic Health, Mental Clarity, Self-Knowledge and Other Virtues.- Models and Mental Illness.- Disease Viewed as a Symbolic Category.- Health and Disease: The Holistic Approach.- Section III / Phenomenological and Speculative Views of Mental Illness.- A Metabletic-Philosophical Evaluation of Mental Health.- Synchronism and Therapy.- Commemorative Remarks in Honor of Erwin W. Straus.- Bibliography of the Works of Erwin W. Straus.- Environments of the Mind.- Luminosity: The Unconscious in the Integrated Person.- Body, Mind, and Conditions of Novelty: Some Remarks on Leonard C. Feldstein's Luminosity.- Section IV / Acting Freely and Acting in Good Health.- Motivational Disturbances and Free Will.- Towards an Understanding of Motivational Disturbance and Freedom of Action: Comments on 'Motivational Disturbances and Free Will'.- Section V / The Myth of Mental Illness: A Further Examination.- The Concept of Mental Illness: Explanation or Justification?.- Szasz on Mental Illness.- Section VI / Reappraising the Concepts of Mental Health and Disease.- H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. / Chairman's Remarks.- Closing Reflections.- Notes on Contributors.