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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology
  • ISBN-13: 9781421418360
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Kenneth S. Kendler, Edited by Josef Parnas
  • Price: AUD $80.99
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2015
  • Format: Paperback (230.00mm X 150.00mm) 424 pages Weight: 650g
  • Categories: Psychiatry [MMH]
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This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry explanation, phenomenology, and nosology and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis.An introduction by Kenneth S Kendler lays out the philosophical grounding of psychiatric practice. The first section addresses the concept of explanation, from the difficulties in describing complex behavior to the categorization of psychological and biological causality. In the second section, contributors discuss experience, including the complex and vexing issue of how self-agency and free will affect mental health. The third and final section examines the organizational difficulties in psychiatric nosology and the instability of the existing diagnostic system. Each chapter has both an introduction by the editors and a concluding comment by another of the books contributors. Contributors: John Campbell, Ph.D.; Thomas Fuchs, M.D., Ph.D.; Shaun Gallagher, Ph.D.; Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.; Sandra D. Mitchell, Ph.D.; Dominic P. Murphy, Ph.D.; Josef Parnas, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci.; Louis A. Sass, Ph.D.; Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D.; James F. Woodward, Ph.D.; Peter Zachar, Ph.D.

""Kendler and Parnas undertake this exploration in a readable, cogent manner in Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry... The authors go to great lengths to ensure that the book is accessible for those with a limited background in philosophy.""

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