About the Authors

Patrick J. Bracken is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Studies at the University of Bradford. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist with Bradford Community Health. He is currently working to develop practical alternatives to traditional psychiatry in the inner city. He has research interests in Continental philosophy, ethnicity and mental health, and the psychology of trauma. He is coeditor of Rethinking the Trauma of War (London: Free Association, 1998).

P. Quinton Deeley, M.B.B.S., is a Registrar in Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London. He pursued theology and religious studies at Clare College, Cambridge, prior to medical training. He delivered the Gresham Lectures in Divinity in 1993 in collaboration with Professor John Bowker on gene-culture coevolutionary theories of religions, published in Is God a Virus? Genes, Culture, and Religion in the Contemporary Debate (London: SPCK, 1995). His main interests are in modeling the relations between mind, body, and culture in sickness and health, and the application of evolutionary perspectives to understanding mind and behavior.

Horacio Fabrega, Jr., M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Disease and Social Behavior (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974) and Evolution of Sickness and Healing (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997). He is currently working on a book entitled "Origins of Psychopathology."

Rom Harré graduated in mathematics and physics and then in philosophy and anthropology. His published work includes studies in the philosophy of the natural sciences. In Social Being, Personal Being, and Physical Being, he explored the role of rules and conventions in various aspects of human cognition, while in Pronouns and People, he and Peter Mülhäuser developed the thesis that grammar and the sense of self are intimately related. His most recent work, The Singular Self, follows further ramifications of the grammatical thesis. He is Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and currently Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Roland Littlewood, D.Phil., M.R.C.Psych., is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at University College London. He studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and the Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford. His books include Pathology and Identity (1993) and The Butterfly and the Serpent (1998).

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Ph.D., M.S.W., is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ilinois. She is also a clinical social worker in private practice in Chicago. Her scholarly interests involve the intersections of Husserlian phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Her many publications include: "Victims No More," Radical Philosophy Review 1(1998):17-34; and "Kohut and Husserl: The Empathic Bond," in Self Psychology: Comparisons and Contrasts, ed. D. W. and S. P. Detrick (Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press 1989).

Matthew John Philpott is a final-year doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Warwick. His doctoral research project is an application of phenomenology (predominantly the work of Merleau-Ponty) to dyslexia. He has published an introductory piece on phenomenology and dyslexia (Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 5[1998]:1-19), and is hoping to start work on a book involved with dissolving the false dichotomy between (dis)ability and (un)intelligence for postdoctoral research.

Fredrik Svenaeus received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of medicine in 1999 from the Department of Health and Society, University of Linköping, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden, where he is presently working in a research project on medicine and hermeneutics.

P. G. Sturdee is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a lecturer in the graduate program in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health. He may be reached at 9 Lilliput Court, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol BS37 6EB, England, U.K.

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