Philosophical issues in psychiatry III

Doody's Notes One of its great strengths is its structure, in which each topic is addressed, immediately followed by a counterpoint article....This is a high-quality overview of several of the historical and philosophical issues that must arise when attempting to understand the nature of a discipline like psychiatry.

The major focus of Professor Kendler's research is in the genetics of psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. Two major methodologies are used in this research. The first involves large population based twin samples. In these twins, we address the aggregate role of genetic and environmental factors. We seek to understand how these factors interact and correlate, and how, through development, the vulnerability to psychiatric illness and drug abuse is expressed. I have focused my work with twin samples from Virginia - in particular the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders - but also worked with twin samples from Norway, Sweden and Holland. My work has focused on a wide range of disorders including major depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, externalizing behaviors, alcoholism, and drug abuse. I have worked a lot toward understanding the genetic and environmental sources of comorbidity of psychiatric and substance use disorders.

Preface ; Introduction ; List of contributors ; PART I: NATURE OF HISTORICAL CHANGE IN SCIENCE ; SECTION 1: OBJECTIVITY AND SCIENTIFIC CHANGE ; 1. Introduction to Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Scientific Change ; 2. Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Scientific Change ; 3. For Objective, Value-Laden, Contextualist Pluralism ; SECTION 2: CHANGE IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY ; 4. Introduction to History and Epistemology of Psychopathology ; 5. History and Epistemology of Psychopathology ; 6. Can Hybridity Overcome Dualism? ; SECTION 3: SCIENTIFIC DISAGREEMENT IN THE MEDICAL CONTEXT ; 7. Introduction to Expert Disagreement and Medical Authority ; 8. Expert Disagreement and Medical Authority ; 9. Trust, Dissent and Decision Vectors ; SECTION 4: THE SOCIAL, THE CULTURAL, AND PSYCHIATRIC KINDS ; 10. Introduction to Varieties of Social Constructionism and the Problem of Progress in Psychiatry ; 11. Varieties of Social Constructionism and the Problem of Progress in Psychiatry ; 12. The role of cultural configurators in the formation of mental symptoms ; PART II: HISTORY OF BROAD MOVEMENTS/STRUCTURES WITHIN PSYCHIATRY ; SECTION 5: THE PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY OF THE DIENCEPHALON ; 13. Introduction to Biography of a brain structure: studying the diencephalon as an epistemic object ; 14. Biography of a brain structure: studying the diencephalon as an epistemic object ; 15. Some Reflections on Historiographic Strategies for the Neurosciences ; SECTION 6: THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AS INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY ; 16. Introduction to On Attitudes Toward Philosophy and Psychology in German Psychiatry, 1867-1917 ; 17. On Attitudes Toward Philosophy and Psychology in German Psychiatry, 1867-1917 ; 18. Interdisciplinarity vs. compartmentalization: an eternal dilemma in psychiatry ; SECTION 7: PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES ; 19. Introduction to The Development of Psychoanalysis in the Context of American Psychiatry ; 20. The Development of Psychoanalysis in the Context of American Psychiatry ; 21. Decline of psychoanalysis to the advantage of what? ; SECTION 8: THE OPERATIONAL REVOLUTION ; 22. Introduction to Psychiatry Made Easy: Operation(al)ism and Some of its Consequences ; 23. Psychiatry Made Easy: Operation(al)ism and Some of its Consequences ; 24. Hempel as a Critic of Bridgman's Operationalism: Lessons for Psychiatry from the History of Science ; SECTION 9: THE EVOLUTION OF GENETIC EXPLANATION IN PSYCHIATRY ; 25. Introduction to the Nature of Nurture ; 26. The Nature of Nature ; 27. Is it time for a "Copenhagen interpretation" in behavioral genetics? ; SECTION 10: PSYCHIATRY AND EVOLUTION ; 28. Introduction to What Can Evolution Tell us About the Healthy Mind? ; 29. What Can Evolution Tell us About the Healthy Mind? ; 30. What can history and social studies of sciences teach us about evolutionary psychiatry? ; PART III: SPECIFIC DISORDERS FROM AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ; SECTION 11: SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE DOPAMINE HYPOTHESIS ; 31. Introduction to Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: An Updated Perspective ; 32. The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: An Updated Perspective ; 33. Why is the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia the Only Game in Town? ; SECTION 12: CONCEPTUAL STATUS OF DEPRESSION TODAY ; 34. Introduction to An overview in a bio-psycho-socio-economic context ; 35. An overview in a bio-psycho-socio-economic context ; 36. What do We Want from A Depression Diagnosis? ; SECTION 13: THE SHAPING OF AUTISM ; 37. Introduction to On the Ratio of Science to Activism in the Shaping of Autism ; 38. On the Ratio of Science to Activism in the Shaping of Autism ; 39. The Shaping of Autism and Other Psychiatric Disorders: An Alternative Perspective ; SECTION 14: THE DECISION TO INCLUDE OR EXCLUDE A DIAGNOSIS IN PSYCHIATRIC NOSOLOGY: THE CASE OF PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER ; 40. Introduction to A DSM Insiders' History of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder ; 41. A DSM Insiders' History of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder ;