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The Social Roots of Delusions
Av Daniel Williams, Sam Wilkinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
1490 kr
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The Social Roots of Delusions argues that human sociality is essential for understanding what delusions are and how they form.Humans are cooperative and cultural animals, radically dependent on others for survival and for the knowledge we use to navigate our world. That world includes complex …
Intruders in the Mind
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Thought Insertion
Av Pablo Lopez-Silva, Tom McClelland
Häftad, 2023
685 kr
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Thought insertion is the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, which causes people to believe that external agents have inserted ideas or thoughts into their minds. More prevalent in schizophrenia, thought insertion has been regarded as one of the most complex psychiatric symptoms. It is …
Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry
Av Chris Letheby, Philip Gerrans
Häftad, 2024
606 kr
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A recent wave of research in psychiatry and neuroscience has re-examined the properties of “classic” psychedelic substances - also known as serotonergic hallucinogens - such as psilocybin, LSD, and DMT. Evidence to date suggests that psychedelics can be given safely in controlled conditions, at …
The Philosophy of Psychiatry
A Companion
Häftad, 2007
1133 kr
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This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors aim to define this exciting field and to highlight the philosophical assumptions and issues that underlie psychiatric …
The Virtuous Psychiatrist
Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice
Av Jennifer Radden, John Sadler
Inbunden, 2010
1371 kr
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The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders. Such a setting makes distinctive moral demands on the very character of the practitioner, it is shown, calling for special virtues and greater virtue …
Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder
The nature of causal explanation in psychology and psychiatry
Av Derek Bolton, Jonathan Hill
Häftad, 2004
1426 kr
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Philosophical ideas about the mind, brain, and behaviour can seem theoretical and unimportant when placed alongside the urgent questions of mental distress and disorder. However, there is a need to give direction to attempts to answer these questions. On the one hand a substantial research effort …
Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies
The psychopathology of common sense
Häftad, 2004
1557 kr
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How can we better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses? This important new book takes us into the world of those suffering from such disorders. Using self descriptions, its emphasis is not on how mental health professionals view sufferers, but on …
Postpsychiatry
Mental health in a postmodern world
Av Patrick Bracken, Philip Thomas
Häftad, 2005
1557 kr
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How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is something to be feared, something to be left to the experts. But is madness best thought of as a medical condition? …
Nature and Narrative
An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry
Av Bill Fulford, Katherine Morris m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
934 kr
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Nature and Narrative is the launch volume in a new series of books entitled International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. The series will aim to build links between the sciences and humanities in psychiatry. Our ability to decipher mental disorders depends to a unique extent on both the …
Reconceiving Schizophrenia
Av Man Cheung Chung, Bill Fulford m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1371 kr
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Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. Though schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives, few attempts have been made to apply the …
Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
Häftad, 2004
1555 kr
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The public, mental health consumers, as well as mental health practitioners wonder about what kinds of values mental health professionals hold, and what kinds of values influence psychiatric diagnosis. Are mental disorders socio-political, practical, or scientific concepts? Is psychiatric diagnosis …
Mapping the Edges and the In-between
A critical analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder
Häftad, 2009
1034 kr
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a diagnosis given to ten percent of all those seen in outpatient mental health facilities and twenty percent of those seen in inpatient psychiatric units. This is a significant number of people in the Western world. Yet many of the core concepts and symptoms …
The Metaphor of Mental Illness
Häftad, 2005
1371 kr
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Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, its legal and medical legitimacy, and the panoply of psychiatry and other mental health services which claim to treat it, there are those who take the radical sceptical line that mental illness is a fabrication. This is a book which takes this …
What is Mental Disorder?
An essay in philosophy, science, and values
Av Derek Bolton
Häftad, 2008
1526 kr
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The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in suffering, loss of freedom and life opportunities, negative impacts on education, work satisfaction and productivity, complications in law, institutions of healthcare, and more. With new editions of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis …
Dementia
Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Av Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
3366 kr
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Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal identity. Is the person with dementia the …
Dementia
Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Av Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1591 kr
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Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal identity. Is the person with dementia the …
Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds
Treating the 'whole' person in psychiatry
Inbunden, 2007
2535 kr
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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and …
Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds
Treating the whole person in psychiatry
Häftad, 2007
1096 kr
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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and …
Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation
Healing damaged relationships
Av Nancy Potter
Inbunden, 2006
2352 kr
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People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. Many within the fields of mental health are centrally involved in helping people to heal from traumatic events and to come to terms with wrongs done to them by others. However, there is surprisingly …
Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation
Healing damaged relationships
Av Nancy Potter
Häftad, 2006
1371 kr
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People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. Many within the fields of mental health are centrally involved in helping people to heal from traumatic events and to come to terms with wrongs done to them by others. However, there is surprisingly …
Vagueness in Psychiatry
Av Geert Keil, Geert Keil m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1335 kr
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In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of …
Philosophical issues in psychiatry III
The Nature and Sources of Historical Change
Av Kenneth S. Kendler, Josef Parnas
Häftad, 2014
1318 kr
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Psychiatry has long struggled with the nature of its diagnoses. The problems raised by questions about the nature of psychiatric illness are particularly fascinating because they sit at the intersection of philosophy, empirical psychiatric/psychological research, measurement theory, historical …
The Abraham Dilemma
A divine delusion
Inbunden, 2015
1280 kr
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What is a religious or spiritual delusion? What does religious delusion reveal about the difference between good and bad spirituality? What is the connection between religious delusion and moral failure? Or between religious delusion and religious terrorism? Or religious delusion and despair?The …
Naturalism, interpretation, and mental disorder
Av Somogy Varga
Häftad, 2015
1115 kr
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The Philosophy of Psychiatry is a unique area of research because the nature of the subject matter leads to quite distinct methodological issues.Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder is an original new work focusing on the challenges we face when trying to interpret and understand mental …
Psychiatric Neuroethics
Studies in Research and Practice
Häftad, 2018
733 kr
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Advances in psychiatric research and clinical psychiatry in the last 30 years have given rise to a host of new questions that lie at the intersection of psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy and law. Such questions include:-Are psychiatric disorders diseases of the brain, caused by dysfunctional …
Madness and Modernism
Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition)
Av Louis Sass
Häftad, 2017
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1021 kr
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The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more.In this revised edition of a now classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a radically new vision of …
Madness and the demand for recognition
A philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activism
Häftad, 2019
1023 kr
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Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is synonymous with unreason and violence, for others with creativity and subversion, elsewhere it is associated with spirits and spirituality. Among the different …
Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine
Av Julian Savulescu, Rebecca Roache m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
663 kr
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Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provides a timely reassessment of the biopsychosocial approach in psychiatry. Spanning the sciences and philosophy of psychiatry, the essays offer …
Lost in Dialogue
Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care
Häftad, 2016
1225 kr
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The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and center. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue …
Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry IV
Psychiatric Nosology
Av Kenneth S. Kendler, Josef Parnas
Häftad, 2017
1084 kr
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The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the issue of nosology. This interest has been further heightened by a series of controversies associated with the development of DSM-5 including the fate of proposed …
