The Philosophy of Psychiatry

A Companion
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-531327-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

This 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 theorising 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radden, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer 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.