ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the interdisciplinary field sometimes called "philosophical psychopathology", which is also related to "philosophy of psychiatry". It focuses on various psychopathologies with special attention to how they negatively impact and distort conscious experience, such as amnesia, somatoparaphrenia, schizophrenia, visual agnosia, autism, and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The chapter discusses "philosophy of psychiatry", covering the overlapping topics of psychopathy, mental illness, and moral responsibility. It summarizes a number of disorders that challenge our notion of personal identity and self. Many of these disorders forced authors to discuss the importantly related philosophical problems of personal identity, the unity of consciousness, and free will and moral responsibility. It is worth mentioning one important launching point for some related work in abnormal psychology and psychopathology, namely, the discovery of "blindsight", which is very frequently discussed in the philosophical literature regarding its implications for consciousness and unconscious visual processing.
