Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
Overview"Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement. Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement. In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), asking whether current systems are sufficient for effective diagnosis, treatment, and research. Doing so, they take up the question of whether mental disorders are natural kinds, grounded in something in the outside world. Psychiatric categories based on natural kinds should group phenomena in such a way that they are subject to the same type of causal explanations and respond similarly to the same type of causal interventions. When these categories do not evince such groupings, there is reason to revise existing classifications. The contributors all question current psychiatric classifications systems and the assumptions on which they are based. They differ, however, as to why and to what extent the categories are inadequate and how to address the problem. Topics discussed include taxometric methods for identifying natural kinds, the error and bias inherent in DSM categories, and the complexities involved in classifying such specific mental disorders as ""oppositional defiance disorder"" and pathological gambling. Contributors George Graham, Nick Haslam, Allan Horwitz, Harold Kincaid, Dominic Murphy, Jeffrey Poland, Nancy Nyquist Potter, Don Ross, Dan Stein, Jacqueline Sullivan, Serife Tekin, Peter Zachar" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Harold Kincaid (University of Cape Town) , Jacqueline A. SullivanPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780262549592ISBN 10: 026254959 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 31 October 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds 1 Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline Sullivan 2 Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing 11 Nick Haslam 3 Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification 29 Jeffrey Poland 4 Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds: A Conceptual Framework 65 Dan J. Stein 5 Beyond Natural Kinds: Toward a “ Relevant ” “ Scientific ”Taxonomy in Psychiatry 75 Peter Zachar 6 Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry 105 Dominic Murphy 7 Being a Mental Disorder 123 George Graham 8 Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology 145 Harold Kincaid 9 Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific Consequences 175 Nancy Nyquist Potter 10 Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study 195 Don Ross 11 The Social Functions of Natural Kinds: The Case of Major Depression 209 Allan Horwitz 12 The Missing Self in Hacking’s Looping Effects 227 Şerife Tekin 13 Stabilizing Mental Disorders: Prospects and Problems 257 Jacqueline Sullivan List of Contributors 283 Index 285ReviewsAuthor InformationHarold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics and Director of the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics at the University of Cape Town. He is the coeditor of Distributed Cognition and the Will- Individual Volition and Social Context and What Is Addiction? (both published by the MIT Press). Jacqueline A. Sullivan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, London, Ontario, and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of multiple recent journal articles on topics in philosophy of neuroscience. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
