The Philosophy of Psychiatry

The Philosophy of Psychiatry
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 470
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ISBN-10 : 9780195343793
ISBN-13 : 0195343794
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Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Psychiatry by : Jennifer Radden

Download or read book The Philosophy of Psychiatry written by Jennifer Radden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors aim to define this exciting field and to highlight the philosophical assumptions and issues that underlie psychiatric theory and practice, the category of mental disorder, and rationales for its social, clinical and legal treatment. As a branch of medicine and a healing practice, psychiatry relies on presuppositions that are deeply and unavoidably philosophical. Conceptions of rationality, personhood and autonomy frame our understanding and treatment of mental disorder. Philosophical questions of evidence, reality, truth, science, and values give meaning to each of the social institutions and practices concerned with mental health care. The psyche, the mind and its relation to the body, subjectivity and consciousness, personal identity and character, thought, will, memory, and emotions are equally the stuff of traditional philosophical inquiry and of the psychiatric enterprise. A new research field--the philosophy of psychiatry--began to form during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Prompted by a growing recognition that philosophical ideas underlie many aspects of clinical practice, psychiatric theorizing and research, mental health policy, and the economics and politics of mental health care, academic philosophers, practitioners, and philosophically trained psychiatrists have begun a series of vital, cross-disciplinary exchanges. This volume provides a sampling of the research yield of those exchanges. Leading thinkers in this area, including clinicians, philosophers, psychologists, and interdisciplinary teams, provide original discussions that are not only expository and critical, but also a reflection of their authors' distinctive and often powerful and imaginative viewpoints and theories. All the discussions break new theoretical ground. As befits such an interdisciplinary effort, they are methodologically eclectic, and varied and divergent in their assumptions and conclusions; together, they comprise a significant new exploration, definition, and mapping of the philosophical aspects of psychiatric theory and practice.

Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry

Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780199228713
ISBN-13 : 019922871X
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry by : Timothy Thornton

Download or read book Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry written by Timothy Thornton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into the three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and tools needed to assess those debates.

Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 912
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ISBN-10 : 0198526954
ISBN-13 : 9780198526957
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry by : Bill Fulford

Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry written by Bill Fulford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry is unique in medicine in being on the border between science and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', while the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. The new interdisciplinary field of 'philosophy of psychiatry' has developed to explore the range of issues relevant to this border country. The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry is a unique textbook which provides a detailed introduction to the field, a framework for study and skill development, and an overview of current research. It focuses on case studies in 5 key topic areas. Each case study is supported by selected readings from both philosophy and mental health, thinking skills exercises, self-test questions, key learning points and detailed guides to further reading.

Philosophy of Psychiatry

Philosophy of Psychiatry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 149
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ISBN-10 : 9781108604420
ISBN-13 : 1108604420
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Philosophy of Psychiatry by : Jonathan Y. Tsou

Download or read book Philosophy of Psychiatry written by Jonathan Y. Tsou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Y. Tsou examines and defends positions on central issues in philosophy of psychiatry. The positions defended assume a naturalistic and realist perspective and are framed against skeptical perspectives on biological psychiatry. Issues addressed include the reality of mental disorders; mechanistic and disease explanations of abnormal behavior; definitions of mental disorder; natural and artificial kinds in psychiatry; biological essentialism and the projectability of psychiatric categories; looping effects and the stability of mental disorders; psychiatric classification; and the validity of the DSM's diagnostic categories. The main argument defended by Tsou is that genuine mental disorders are biological kinds with harmful effects. This argument opposes the dogma that mental disorders are necessarily diseases (or pathological conditions) that result from biological dysfunction. Tsou contends that the broader ideal of biological kinds offers a more promising and empirically ascertainable naturalistic standard for assessing the reality of mental disorders and the validity of psychiatric categories.

Psychiatry: An evidence-based text

Psychiatry: An evidence-based text
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 1262
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ISBN-10 : 9781444113266
ISBN-13 : 1444113267
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Psychiatry: An evidence-based text by : Bassant Puri

Download or read book Psychiatry: An evidence-based text written by Bassant Puri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Succinct, user-friendly, thoroughly referenced and prepared by leading experts in the field, this book is the only single textbook you will need to succeed in the Royal College of Psychiatrists' MRCPsych and other related higher examinations. Chapters follow the structure and syllabus of the examination ensuring that you receive the necessary essen

Anatomy of an Avatar

Anatomy of an Avatar
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9780198886655
ISBN-13 : 0198886659
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Book Synopsis Anatomy of an Avatar by : Philip Gerrans

Download or read book Anatomy of an Avatar written by Philip Gerrans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies a powerful framework in computational neuroscience (predictive coding and active inference) to explain psychiatric disorders that are characterised by pathologies of self-awareness. It shows how the self is best conceived of as an avatar or model made by the brain for the fundamental purpose of optimising basic bodily function. That avatar integrates and coordinates neurocomputation across the mind. It allows the mind to anticipate and respond to sensory information that bears on the organism’s prospects. The self is thus a model (avatar) made by the brain to allow the body to play the game of life. When activity in circuitry that implements the avatar is compromised a variety of psychiatric disorders result. Anatomy of an Avatar provides a theoretical framework for theories of embodied selfhood anchored in homoestatic regulation, as well as exploring psychiatric disorders involving the self and the empirical application of concepts of free energy minimisation, active inference and predictive processing. The book also includes key case studies in the cognitive neuropsychiatry of self awareness and test cases for philosophical concepts of self representation and the experience of self awareness. The book will be essential reading for those in the fields of psychology and consciousness, psychiatry, and philosophy.

Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science

Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781317493167
ISBN-13 : 1317493168
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Book Synopsis Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science by : Rachel Cooper

Download or read book Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science written by Rachel Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science" explores conceptual issues in psychiatry from the perspective of analytic philosophy of science. Through an examination of those features of psychiatry that distinguish it from other sciences - for example, its contested subject matter, its particular modes of explanation, its multiple different theoretical frameworks, and its research links with big business - Rachel Cooper explores some of the many conceptual, metaphysical and epistemological issues that arise in psychiatry. She shows how these pose interesting challenges for the philosopher of science while also showing how ideas from the philosophy of science can help to solve conceptual problems within psychiatry. Cooper's discussion ranges over such topics as the nature of mental illnesses, the treatment decisions and diagnostic categories of psychiatry, the case-history as a form of explanation, how psychiatry might be value-laden, the claim that psychiatry is a multi-paradigm science, the distortion of psychiatric research by pharmaceutical industries, as well as engaging with the fundamental question whether the mind is reducible to something at the physical level. "Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science" demonstrates that cross-disciplinary contact between philosophy of science and psychiatry can be immensely productive for both subjects and it will be required reading for mental health professionals and philosophers alike.