The Handbook, both as history and analysis, will be indispensible to the growing number of philosophers engaged in traditional 'Morals' and the 'Philosophy of Mind' who feel the need to explore and make sense of the concepts of psychiatry. Psychiatry itself, still picking its way through internal confusions and dissensions, is turning more and more to philosophy, some of it highly obscure. For such practitioners, too, this book will be a wonderful tool. It is a timely and monumental work.

• SECTION ONE: HISTORY; SECTION TWO: CONTEXTS OF CARE; SECTION THREE: ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS; SECTION FOUR: SUMMONING CONCEPTS; SECTION FIVE: DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SECTION SIX: ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES; SECTION SEVEN: EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING; SECTION EIGHT: CURE AND CARE

The Handbook, both as history and analysis, will be indispensible to the growing number of philosophers engaged in traditional 'Morals' and the 'Philosophy of Mind' who feel the need to explore and make sense of the concepts of psychiatry. Psychiatry itself, still picking its way through internal confusions and dissensions, is turning more and more to philosophy, some of it highly obscure. For such practitioners, too, this book will be a wonderful tool. It is a timely and monumental work.

• SECTION ONE: HISTORY; SECTION TWO: CONTEXTS OF CARE; SECTION THREE: ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS; SECTION FOUR: SUMMONING CONCEPTS; SECTION FIVE: DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SECTION SIX: ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES; SECTION SEVEN: EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING; SECTION EIGHT: CURE AND CARE

The Handbook, both as history and analysis, will be indispensible to the growing number of philosophers engaged in traditional 'Morals' and the 'Philosophy of Mind' who feel the need to explore and make sense of the concepts of psychiatry. Psychiatry itself, still picking its way through internal confusions and dissensions, is turning more and more to philosophy, some of it highly obscure. For such practitioners, too, this book will be a wonderful tool. It is a timely and monumental work.

• SECTION ONE: HISTORY; SECTION TWO: CONTEXTS OF CARE; SECTION THREE: ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS; SECTION FOUR: SUMMONING CONCEPTS; SECTION FIVE: DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SECTION SIX: ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES; SECTION SEVEN: EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING; SECTION EIGHT: CURE AND CARE