The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental IllnessJHU Press, 1 dic 2004 - 368 páginas Because most psychiatric illnesses are complex phenomena, no single method or approach is sufficient to explain them or the experiences of persons who suffer from them. In The Concepts of Psychiatry S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D. argues that the discipline of psychiatry can therefore be understood best from a pluralistic perspective. Grounding his approach in the works of Paul McHugh, Phillip Slavney, Leston Havens, and others, Ghaemi incorporates a more explicitly philosophical discussion of the strengths of a pluralistic model and the weaknesses of other approaches, such as biological or psychoanalytic theories, the biopsychosocial model, or eclecticism. Ghaemi's methodology is twofold: on the one hand, he applies philosophical ideas, such as utilitarian versus duty-based ethical models, to psychiatric practice. On the other hand, he subjects clinical psychiatric phenomena, such as psychosis or the Kraepelin nosology, to a conceptual analysis that is philosophically informed. This book will be of interest to professionals and students in psychiatry, as well as psychologists, social workers, philosophers, and general readers who are interested in understanding the field of psychiatry and its practices at a conceptual level. |
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What There Is Of Mind and Brain | 24 |
How We Know Understanding the Mind | 33 |
What Is Scientific Method? | 41 |
Reading Karl Jasperss General Psychopathology | 54 |
What Is Scientific Method in Psychiatry? | 78 |
Darwins Dangerous Method The Essentialist Fallacy | 94 |
What We Value The Ethics of Psychiatry | 104 |
Lifes Roller Coaster Mania | 219 |
Being SelfAware Insight | 226 |
Psychopharmacology Calvinism or Hedonism? | 240 |
Truth and Statistics Problems of Empirical Psychiatry | 251 |
A Climate of Opinion What Remains of Psychoanalysis | 264 |
Being There Existential Psychotherapy | 270 |
Beyond Eclecticism Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology | 283 |
Part III After Eclecticism | 289 |
Desire and Self Hellenistic and Eastern Approaches | 116 |
What Clinicians Do and Why | 133 |
On the Nature of Mental Illness Disease or Myth? | 135 |
Order out of Chaos? The Evolution of Psychiatric Nosology | 148 |
A Theory of DSMIV Ideal Types | 175 |
Dimensions versus Categories | 185 |
The Perils of Belief Psychosis | 204 |
The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune Depression | 209 |
Bridging the BiologyPsychology Dichotomy The Hopes of Integrationism | 291 |
Why It Is Hard to Be Pluralist | 299 |
Afterword | 309 |
Notes | 311 |
References | 321 |
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