Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Stability and instability -- One brief history -- What is this book about? -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 2.Conceiving mental disorder -- Mental disorder has consequences -- What should a theory of mental disorder do? -- The mind of mental disorder -- Exemplars of mental disorder -- Roles of the mental in mental disorder -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 3.The disorder of mental disorder -- What makes mental disorder undesirable? -- Morally therapeutic interlude and lure of the disease model -- Are mental disorders diseases? -- Mental disorder, brain disorder and DSM -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 4.Skepticism about mental disorder -- Mental disorder and the mind/body problem -- Pro-dualism: the first line of defense -- Metaphysical ecumenism and physicalism: the second line of defense -- Mental disorder and respect for persons -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 5.Seeking norms for mental disorder --

Contents note continued: Despair, depression and disorder -- Anxiety, DSM and assessing norms -- Cultural conventionalism -- Mind maladapted -- Rationality and intentionality -- Logic of its own -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 6.An original position -- Social order, mental order and veils of ignorance -- The importance of conscious experience -- Basic psychological capacities -- A concept of mental disorder -- Coming to grief over psychopathy -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 7.Addiction and responsibility for self -- Impulse, inhibition and responsibility for self -- Compulsion and addiction -- Animal models -- Neural models -- How brain mechanisms may gum up the works -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 8.Reality lost and found -- Symptom and schizophrenia -- Grand delusions -- Realism among the ruins -- Paranoia, benevolence and imagination -- Summary -- Suggested reading -- 9.Minding the missing me -- Me, myself and my selves -- `I am dead' but do not mean it --

Contents note continued: Self serving in a supermarket -- Explanation explained -- Summary -- Suggested reading.