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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Derek Bolton (, Professor of Philosophy and Psychopathology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London; and Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, UK)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.516kg ISBN: 9780198565925ISBN 10: 0198565925 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 07 February 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational 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 Contents1: The current diagnostic manuals: aims, methods, and questions 2: The sciences on mental order/disorder and related concepts: normality, meaning, natural and social norms 3: Mental disorder and human nature 4: Clinical definition: distress, disability and the need to treat 5: Boundaries and terminology in flux 6: Some conclusionsReviewsThis book provides an excellent discussion and philosophical critique of the use of the term 'mental disorder'...this book will be useful to the inquiring mind that seeks to understand mental disorder from a wider perspective. * The Psychologist * This book provides an excellent discussion and philosophical critique of the use of the term 'mental disorder'...this book will be useful to the inquiring mind that seeks to understand mental disorder from a wider perspective. The Psychologist Author InformationDerek Bolton read philosophy at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate subsequently published as 'An Approach to Wittgenstein's Philosophy' in 1979. He subsequently trained in Clinical Psychology and has worked in the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London for many years. He is the author of many papers in clinical and scientific psychiatry, and on philosophical topics in psychiatry, and co-authored with Jonathan Hill 'Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder', published by Oxford University Press, 2e, 2004. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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