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Specialized mechanisms for theory of mind: are mental representations special because they are mental or because they are representations?

Does theory of mind depend on a capacity to reason about representations generally or on mechanisms selective for the processing of mental state representations? In four experiments, participants reasoned about beliefs (mental representations) and notes (non-mental, linguistic representations), which according to two prominent theories are closely matched representations because both are repres...

The Sociology of Mental Disorder

Aimez-vous Brahms? Aimez-vous le structuralisme? The half-jibing stereotype of the Frenchman as the great lover is as true in the intellectual sphere as any other and perhaps even more so. After the long affair with existentialism, now the almost obsessional concern with structuralism. But this is a brave book, an honest, uneasy and unassuming book. There are three clearly defined sections. The...

The Problem of Mental Disorder

stantly discovering new measures and medicaments for preventing and relieving many of the graver ills of the body, no like agency is successfully coping with the mentally disordered in public and private institutions for the insane and in the open life of the community. They realised that nearly every hospitalised patient means a disturbed and disorganised family and were conscious of the magni...

The Concept of Mental Disorder

Mental Health and Mental Disorder

Mental Health and Mental Disorder. Edited by Arnold M. Rose. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 40s. The emergence of group methods in the treatment of mental illness in this country is still regarded with some suspicion by many workers in the mental health field. There is a tendency to consider the treatment of numbers of patients at the same time as a second best, though most people agree that the sho...