Causal Concepts in Psychopathology

Kenneth S. Kendler has been publishing actively in psychiatric genetics and psychiatric nosology for thirty-five years and is the recipient of many honors and awards. He has written extensively on topics at the interface between psychiatry, and philosophy and history. Josef Parnas has dedicated the past twenty-five years to writing about the philosophy of psychopathology and applying it to psychiatric diagnosis and classification. He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary theoretical institute, The Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. Peter Zachar is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Auburn University Montgomery and a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science. His primary area of scholarship is philosophical issues in psychiatric classification, with notable works including A Metaphysics of Psychopathology (2014, Japanese trans. 2018).

'The Editors have collected a wide range of chapters on causal concepts in psychopathology, reflecting current thinking on this major topic, from multiple perspectives, across philosophy, psychiatry and the basic sciences, from Anglo-American and European traditions, integrating research and clinical perspectives.' Derek Bolton, Professor of Philosophy Psychopathology, King's College London, UK

• Acknowledgements; List of terms and their abbreviations; List of tables and figures; Introduction; Part I. Struggle to Conceal: 1. Protecting bad intel in a dirty war; 2. Secret-keepers and mythmakers; 3. 'Operation legacy'; 4. The scramble for Kenya's history and the making of an archival limbo; Part II. Struggle to Reveal: 5. International archival (B)orders; 6. 'The memory of a nation:' the co-development of Kenya and its archives; 7. Decolonization and the struggle for Kenya's 'migrated archive's'; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.