Overview

Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is of course true of medicine. Many of us owe our existence and our continued vigour to some achievement of medical technology. And what is true in a major way of general medicine is to a significant degree true of psychiatry. Prozac has long since arrived, and in its wake an ever-growing armamentarium of new psychotropics; beyond that, neuroscience promises ever more technological advances for the field.However, the effect of technology on the field of psychiatry remains highly ambiguous. On the one hand there are the achievements, both in the science and practice of psychiatry; on the other hand technology's influence on the field threatens its identity as a humanistic practice. In this ambiguity psychiatry is not unique - major thinkers have for a long time been highly ambivalent and concerned about the technological order that now defines modern society. For the future, the danger is that the psychiatrically real becomes that which can be seen, the symptom, and especially that which can be measured. Disorders and treatments might become reduced to what can be defined by diagnostic criteria and what can be mapped out on a scale. This book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made. It includes a range of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters from a range of psychiatrists and philosophers.

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Author:   James Phillips (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780199207428

ISBN 10:   0199207429
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   23 October 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

James Phillips: Introduction Part 1 - Technical Reason in Psychiatry 1: John Sadler: the instrument metaphor, hyponarrativity, and the generic physician 2: Peter Zachar & Scott Bartlett: Technoloigcal rationality in psychiatry: immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternative 3: Louis C Charland: Technological reason and regulation of emotion Part 2 - Critical Approaches to TEchnology in Psychiatry 4: Miguel Uribe: Technology, aesthetic explanation, and psychoanalysis 5: Sue V Rosser: Focusing the lenses of feminist theories to reflect on technology and psychiatry 6: Douglas Porter: The critical theory of psychopharmacology: the work of David Healy and beyond 7: Donald Mender: Towards a post-technological information theory Part 3 - Technology and Psychiatric Disorders 8: Douglas W Heinrichs: Technology and mental disorders: a clinical probe into the differential impact on individuals 9: Mark D Rego: Frontal fatigue: how technology may contribute to mental illness 10: Philip Sinaikin: Bored to tears? Depression and Heideggr's concepts of profound boredom: a postpsychiatry contribution Part 4 - Technological Instruments 11: Abraham Rudnick: Psychiatric rehabilitation and the notion of technology in psychiatry 12: Stuart Kaplan: Drugs, not hugs: antidepressant medication trials and suicidality in children - a case history in the philosophy of science as an argument for the neeed for improved technology in psychiatry 13: Karen Iseminger & Dale Theobald: Philosophical considerations of an internet-enabled telephone and computer psychiatric symptom monitoring system: maintaining thebalance between subjectivity and objectivity in research 14: Robert Kruger: The assessment of emotional awareness: can technology make a contribution? Part 5 - Ethical Issues in Technology and Psychiatry 15: Jennifer Radden: Thinking about the repair manual: technique and technology in psychiatry 16: Michael A Cerullo: Beyond repugnance: human enhancement and the President's Council on Bioethics 17: Mark P Jenkins: The reflectively anxious and depressed; psychotropics and lives worth living

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Anyone who is interested in this area will enjoy and learn much from this book. The British Journal of Psychiatry An interesting look at how technology has changed the practice of psychiatry and psychology... it offers significant insight Doody's Notes

Anyone who is interested in this area will enjoy and learn much from this book. The British Journal of Psychiatry An interesting look at how technology has changed the practice of psychiatry and psychology... it offers significant insight Doody's Notes

<br>. ..this book is an interesting look at how technology has changed (sometimes for better, sometimes not) the practice of psychiatry and psychology, especially within the past 20 to 30 years....it offers significant insight into how the practice of psychiatry and psychology have been irreversibly altered. --Doody's<br>

Author Information

James Phillips is in the private practice of psychiatry, with a focus on medically oriented psychotherapy, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine. He is Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and is editor of the AAPP Bulletin. He has written extensively in the area of philosophy and psychiatry and is on the editorial board of the journal, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology. He is co-editor (with James Morley) of Imagination and its Pathologies (MIT Press, 2002. Since 2004 he has been involved in developing and supporting a psychiatric clinic in Ayacucho, Peru, a rural Andean city, and he travels there regularly.

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