The concepts of psychiatry : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness /
"This book will be of interest to professionals and students in psychiatry as well as psychologists, social workers, philosophers, and general readers who are interested in understanding the field of psychiatry and its pratices at a conceptual level."--Jacket.
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives
- What there is: of mind and brain
- How we know: understanding the mind
- What is scientific method?
- Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology
- What is scientific method in psychiatry?
- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy
- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry
- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches
- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth?
- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology
- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types
- Dimensions versus categories
- The perils of belief: psychosis
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression
- Life's rollercoaster: mania
- Being self-aware: insight
- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism?
- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry
- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis
- Being there: existential psychotherapy
- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology
- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism
- Why it is hard to be pluralist.
