Examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is: its reality, causes, consequences, compassionate treatment, and more. Revised and updated throughout.

George Graham has served as philosophy professor at Alabama-Birmingham and Georgia State and as A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, USA. He is a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and coauthor of Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach Us about Religions (2020).

1. Introduction 2. Conceiving mental disorder 3. The disorder of mental disorder 4. Skepticism about mental disorder 5. Seeking norms for mental disorder 6. Mental health and illness after an original position 7. Addiction and responsibility for self 8. Reality lost and found 9. Minding the missing me. Bibliography Index