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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Radden (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 25.20cm Weight: 0.835kg ISBN: 9780195313277ISBN 10: 0195313275 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 18 January 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I - Psychopathology and Normalcy 1: Grant Gillett: Cognition: Brain Pain: Psychotic Cognition, Hallucination and Delusions 2: Jennifer Hansen: Affectivity: Depression and Mania 3: Alan Soble: Desire: Paraphilias and Distress in DSM-IV 4: Louis Charland: Character: Moral Treatment and the Personality Disorders 5: Al Mele: Action: Volitional Disorder and Addiction 6: George Graham: Self-ascription: Though Insertion 7: Stephen Braude: Memory: The Nature and Significance of Dissociation 8: Shaun Gallagher and Mette Vaever: Body: Disorders of Embodiment 9: Jennifer Radden: Identity: Personal Identity, Character Identity and Mental Disorder 10: Christian Perring: Development: Disorders of Childhood and Youth Part 2 - Epistemology of Practice 11: Sadler: Diagnosis / Anti-Diagnosis 12: James Phillips: Understanding / Explanation 13: Tim Thornton: Reductionism / Anti-Reductionism 14: Bill Fulford: Facts / Values: Ten Principles of Values-based Medicine Part 3 - Norms, Values and Ethics 15: Nancy Potter: Gender 16: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat: Race and Culture 17: Charles Culver and Bernard Gert: Competence 18: Daniel Robinson: Dangerousness and the General Duty to All the World 19: Ruth Chadwick and Gordon Aindow: Treatment and Research Ethics 20: Simon Wilson and Gwen Adshead: Criminal Responsibility 21: Margaret Battin and Brooke Hopkins: Religion Part 4 - Theoretical Models 22: Dominic Murphy: Darwinian: Darwinian Models of Psychotherapy 23: Bettina Bergo: Psychoanalytic: Freud's Debt to Philosophy and his Copernican Revolution 24: Michael Schwartz and Osborne Wiggins: Phenomenological: Hermeneutics, Understanding and Interpretation in Psychiatry 25: Andrew Garner and Valerie Hardcastle: Neurobiological 26: Edward Erwin: Cognitive-Behavioral: Cognitive-behavior Therapy 27: Jennifer Church: Social Constructionist Part 5 - Circumscribing Mental Disorder 28: Rom Harre: Benchmarks for Psychiatric Concepts 29: Bernard Gert and Charles Culver: Defining Mental Disorder 30: Carl Elliot: Mental Health and Its Limits About the Authors IndexReviews<br> The publication of this book is a major event in the ongoing development of the field...a significant accomplishment...it simultaneously represents, announces, and consolidates the arrival of an exciting new field. --Metapsychology Online Book Reviews<p><br> Highly recommended. --Choice<p><br> The publication of this book is a major event in the ongoing development of the field...a significant accomplishment...it simultaneously represents, announces, and consolidates the arrival of an exciting new field. --Metapsychology Online Book Reviews<br> Highly recommended. --Choice<br> Author InformationJennifer Radden received her doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University and is Professor and Chair in the Philosophy Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her published research is on moral and conceptual issues arising out of the theory and practice of psychiatry. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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