The concepts of psychiatry a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives
- What there is: of mind and brain
- How we know: understanding the mind
- What is scientific method?
- Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology
- What is scientific method in psychiatry?
- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy
- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry
- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches
- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth?
- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology
- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types
- Dimensions versus categories
- The perils of belief: psychosis
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression
- Life's rollercoaster: mania
- Being self-aware: insight
- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism?
- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry
- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis
- Being there: existential psychotherapy
- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology
- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism
- Why it is hard to be pluralist.