Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-417) and index.

"Antisocial personality" values, psychiatry -- Socratic questions in Broadmoor -- The contours of a moral landscape -- Childhood and after -- Interpreting this landscape: some problems -- Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor -- On human interpretation -- Hopes for the future of psychiatry -- "A skill so deeply hidden in the human soul" -- In shadow? human interpretation of people -- To find the mind's construction in the face -- Reflective interpretation -- Human interpretation in psychiatry -- "A gulf which defies description" -- "My world under glass" -- Interpreting delusions -- Waking dreams -- The dark side of the history of psychiatry -- Participation and collaboration -- Medicalizing social disapproval -- On the boundaries of psychiatry -- The disputed boundaries of psychiatry -- Dysfunction? -- Harm -- "Psychiatric" harm as an obstacle to human flourishing -- Autism: disorder or neurodiversity? -- Crossing the medical boundary? -- Strands in a good human life? -- Agency, control, and responsibility -- Brain, mind, and agency -- Psychiatric conditions and the framework of responsibility -- Behind the framework -- Pathologies affecting the capacity for action -- Distortions of motivation: what is addiction? -- Unwilling addiction as diminished control -- Character, "personality disorder," and responsibility -- Identity -- The sense of self -- Combat trauma: moral identity and moral injury -- Psychotherapy, autonomy, and self-creation -- Self-creation: horse and rider -- Entrapment in eating disorders -- Authenticity and identity in eating disorders -- Dementia, responsibility, and identity -- The person or the illness? schizophrenia -- Self-creation, values, and psychiatric disorder -- Epilogue. psychiatry and our depths.