Overview

In recent years there has been a major move within psychiatry to foster a deeper understanding of the conceptual underpinnings of mental health. This new approach has drawn in equal measure on both the humanities and medicine. Essential Philosophy if Psychiatry is both an introduction to, and a summary of a rapidly growing field. It is the first concise introduction to what is a contested field, written by one of the people driving it forward. Because recent philosophy of psychiatry has drawn from moral philosophy, the philosophy of mind and language, and the philosophy of science, it is difficult to get a clear overview of the field. This book does just that. It is divided into three parts: Values, Meanings and Facts. In addition, there is a short chapter of conclusions, a glossary of philosophical terms and a guide to further reading. For anyone looking for an accessible, undaunting introduction to this field, this is the essential text.

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Author:   Tim Thornton (Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.434kg
ISBN:  

9780199228713

ISBN 10:   019922871
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I - Values 1: Anti-psychiatry, values and the philosophy of psychiatry 1.1: The debate between 'values in' and values out' accounts of mental illness 1.2: Putting the debate into context 1.3: A biological teleological model of mental illness 1.4: Mild cognitive impairment: a case study in philosophy of psychiatry 2: Values, psychiatric ethics and clinical judgement 2.1: A toolkit for ethical reasoning in medicine and psychiatry? 2.2: Judgement and the broader framework of Values Based Practice 2.3: The role of judgement in the Four Principles approach to medical ethics Part II - Meanings 3: Understanding psychopathology 3.1: Jaasperes on the role of understanding in psychiatry 3.2: The attempt to understand psychopathology in recent philosophy of psychiatry 4: Theorising about meaning for mental health care 4.1: Cognitivism, the mind and inner states 4.2: The discursive turn, social constructionism and dementia 4.3: A Wittgensteinian account of meaning Part III - Facts 5: The validity of psychiatric classification 5.1: Facts, values and psychiatric validity 5.2: Two complications for psychiatric classification 5.3: Lessons from the philosophy of science 6: The relation of Evidence Based Medicine and tacit knowledge in clinical judgement 6.1: The presence of Evidence Based Medicine in psychiatry 6.2: Hume's challenge to induction 6.3: Responses to Hume 6.4: The role of individual judgement in induction

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...a persuasive, well-argued, and original contribution to the field in its own right, and no mere primer...truly essential to all those who work, study and research in mental health, as well as those who suffer from mental illness, and their families and friends. Mental Health Today

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Tim Thornton completed his PhD on Wittgenstein and judgement in the History and Philosophy of Science Department of the University of Cambridge before becoming Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is now Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the newly established Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire.

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