Jennifer Radden
My research is focused on philosophical issues arising out of mental health concepts and policy, and psychiatric practice. Recent publications have been in the area of psychiatric ethics, and since 1990 I have sat on the ethics board at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass. Conceptual and ethical issues about depression and melancholia, and delusions are another current research concern.
Selected Publications
Books
Madness and Reason (1985)
Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality (1996)
As Editor
The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva (2000)
The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion (2004).
Articles
“Into the Darkness: Losing Identity with Dementia,” (co-authored with J.M.Fordyce), Dementia: Mind, Meaning and the Person edited by Julian C. Hughes, Stephen J. Louw and Steven R. Sabat. Oxford University Press, 2005: 71-88.
“Melancholy, Mood and Landscape,” Grey Hope: The Persistence of Melancholy edited by Sigrid Sandstrom. Atopia Projects, Stockholm. 2006: 46-52.
“Defining Persecutory Paranoia,” Reconceiving Schizophrenia edited by Man Chung, Fulford, and Graham. Oxford University Press 2006:255-273.
“Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: the Case of Psychiatry,” Working Virtue edited by R.Walker and P.J.Ivanhoe. Oxford University Press 2006: 113-134.
“Judicial Uses for Forced Psychotropic Medication,” (co-authored with A. Freedman), International Journal of Mental Health. Vol 35, No.1 Spring 2006:3-11.
Courses taught
Sanity and Madness; Philosophical Foundations of Public Policy; Utopian Justice; Mental Health, Law and Public Policy; Rights; Melancholia
Contact Information
Office: Wheatley 05-018
Phone: 617-287-6546
Email: jennifer.radden@umb.edu