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Author:   S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD MPH (Professor and Director, Mood Disorders Program, Tufts Medical Center) ,  Paul R. McHugh, MD (Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780801873775

ISBN 10:   0801873770
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   25 December 2003
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: PART I: Theory: What Clinicians Think and Why1. The Status Quo: Dogmatism, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Alternatives 2. What There is: Of Mind and Brain 3. How We Know: Understanding the Mind 4. What is Scientific Method? 5. Reading Karl Jasper's General Psychopathology 6. What Is Scientific Method in Psychiatry 7. Darwin's Dangerous Method: The Essentialist Fallacy 8. What We Value: The Ethics of Psychiatry 9. Desire and Self: Hellenistic and Eastern Approaches PART II: Practice: What Clinicians Do and Why 10. On the Nature of Mental Illness: Disease of Myth? 11. Order out of Chaos? The Evolution of Psychiatric Nosology 12. A Theory of DSM-IV: Ideal Types 13. Dimensions versus Categories 14. The Perils of Belief: Psychosis 15. The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune: Depression 16. Life's Roller Coaster: Mania 17. Being Self-Aware: Insight 18. Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or Hedonism? 19. Truth and Statistics: Problems of Empirical Psychiatry 20. A Climate of Opinion: What Remains of Psychoanalysis 21. Being There: Existential Psychotherapy 22. Beyond Eclecticism: Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology PART III: After Eclecticism 23. Bridging the Biology-Psychology Dichotomy: The Hopes of Integrationism 24. Why It Is Hard to Be Pluralist

Reviews

<p>Ghaemi's grasp is wide. His book will be as much disturbing as satisfying but will provide the reader a sense of where our field has been and where it may need to go.--Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry (01/01/2010)

A sensational success when it comes to waking us up from our conceptually impoverished stupors... Ghaemi has given us a book that is not only painfully unusual by today's standards, but so stubbornly and clearly thought out as well. -- AndrA(c)s Martin, M.D., M.P.H., Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Author Information

S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.P.H., is director of the Bipolar Disorder Research Program at Emory University School of Medicine.

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