Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. Though schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives, few attempts have been made to apply the tool kit of philosophy to schizophrenia, the mix of global analysis, conceptual insight, and argumentative clarity that is indicative of a philosophical perspective.This book is a major effort at redressing that imbalance. Recent developments in the area of philosophy known as the philosophy of psych.;Contributors; 1 Introduction: on reconceiving schizophrenia; 2 They diagnosed me a schizophrenic when I was just a Gemini. 'The other side of madness'; 3 Conceptions of schizophrenia; 4 Explaining schizophrenia: the relevance of phenomenology; 5 Schizophrenic delusion and hallucination as the expression and consequence of an alteration of the existential a prioris; 6 Schizophrenia: a phenomenological-anthropological approach; 7 Schizophrenia and the sixth sense; 8 The paralogisms of psychosis; 9 How to move beyond the concept of schizophrenia; 10 The delusional stance