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Kant on mental disorder. Part 1: An overview

Whitman College, USA, frierspr{at}whitman.edu

This paper sets out Kant’s anthropological account of mental disorder. I begin with a discussion of the nature of Kant’s ‘pragmatic anthropology’ and the implications of the fact that his discussion of mental disorder takes place in that context. I then set out Kant’s taxonomy of the mind and discuss the various disorders affecting the cognitive faculty and the faculties of feeling and desire. I end with a brief discussion of Kant’s views on the causes, preventions, and treatments of mental disorder.

Key Words: emotions • faculty psychology • Kant • mental illness • pragmatic anthropology

History of Psychiatry, Vol. 20, No. 3, 267-289 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X08337642


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