Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Glossary

1. The utility of critical realism

2. The limits of naïve realism

3. The limits of postmodernism

4. Do we exist as individuals?

5. Does the brain cause behaviour?

6. Does life gone on within you and without you?

7. Is child sexual abuse a moral panic?

8. How do know if a person has been tortured?

9. Why do we protest (sometimes)?

10. How has psychiatric diagnosis both failed and survived?

11. Why was psychoanalysis marginalised?

12. The possibility of a critical realist human science

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton, UK.