Psychiatry and Human Nature

Classic and Romantic Perspectives

AvGareth S. Owen

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Psychiatry is medicine's most multi-disciplinary specialty and arguably its most intellectually and emotionally demanding. It has long attracted dual interpretations from cool, detached perspectives valuing objectivity (classic) to hotter, embodied and more political perspectives valuing subjectivity (romantic). Professor Owen argues that psychiatry should become more aware of classic and romantic threads that run through it. He approaches core topics in psychiatry and throughout the book both research and case material are used to animate the concepts. The author relates psychiatry to questions in philosophical anthropology and ethics. He presents human nature, mental disorder, and human freedom as inherently inter-related. This is a book of broad appeal to anyone interested in psychiatry and why this branch of medicine has ethical, legal and political significance.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-22
Mått:155 x 233 x 11 mm
Vikt:330 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:209
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009212533

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'In Psychiatry and Human Nature, Owen elegantly teases out alternative world views in psychiatry and mental health through the lens of the alternative classical and romantic traditions. Erudite, yet readable, it provides a refreshingly original take on the many controversies in how we conceptualise and respond to mental disorders.' Matthew Hotopf, CBE FRCPsych FMedSci, Executive Dean, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London

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Part I. Toward Psychiatric Formulation: 1. 'Classic' and 'Romantic' in psychiatry; 2. What is Phenomenology?; 3. Applying Phenomenology; 4. Why Classify in Psychiatry? – 'Meddling Intellect'; 5 . Taming the Classification Mindset; 6. Understanding and Explaining in the Psychiatric assessment – Two Worlds; 7. Case Formulation – Holism in Psychiatry; PART II. Psychiatry and Ethics: 8. Suicide – Social Entanglement; 9. Mental Capacity: Mental disorder/disability and Freedom; 10. Mental Capacity: Imagining the Future; 11. Treatment with and without Mutuality – Care Relationships; 12. Psychiatry and Human Nature.