Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry-explanation, phenomenology, and nosology-and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis. An introduction by Kenneth S. Kendler lays out the philosophical grounding of psychiatric practice. The first section addresses the concept of explanation, from the difficulties in describing complex behavior to the categorization of psychological and biological causality. In the second section, contributors discuss experience, including the complex and vexing issue of how self-agency and free will affect mental health. The third and final section examines the organizational difficulties in psychiatric nosology and the instability of the existing diagnostic system. Each chapter has both an introduction by the editors and a concluding comment by another of the book's contributors. Contributors: John Campbell, Ph.D.; Thomas Fuchs, M.D., Ph.D.; Shaun Gallagher, Ph.D.; Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.; Sandra D. Mitchell, Ph.D.; Dominic P. Murphy, Ph.D.; Josef Parnas, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci.; Louis A. Sass, Ph.D.; Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D.; James F. Woodward, Ph.D.; Peter Zachar, Ph.D.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-02-23
Mått152 x 229 x 29 mm
Vikt726 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801889837

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Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., is the Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, where he is also a professor of human genetics and the director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics. He is the author of, most recently, Genes, Environment, and Psychopathology. Josef Parnas, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci., is a professor of psychiatry and the consultant medical director for the Department of Psychiatry at Copenhagen University. He is also the codirector of the National Danish Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research.

List of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction. Why Does Psychiatry Need Philosophy?Part I: Explanation Chapter 1.Explaining Complex BehaviorChapter 2. Etiological Models in Psychiatry: Reductive and Nonreductive ApproachesChapter 3. Levels of Explanation in PsychiatryChapter 4. Cause and Explanation in Psychiatry: An Interventionist PerspectiveChapter 5. Causation in PsychiatryPart II: PhenomenologyChapter 6. Varieties of "Phenomenology": On Description, Understanding, and Explanation in PsychiatryChapter 7. Self-agency and Mental CausalityPart III: NosologyChapter 8. Real Kinds but No True Taxonomy: An Essay in Psychiatric SystematicsChapter 9. The Incredible Insecurity of Psychiatric NosologyEpilogueIndex

This book asks the right questions, and sends us in the right direction. -- S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H. Metapsychology 2009 A good collection of papers... Will be of most interest to specialists in the area of philosophy of psychiatry (and to philosophers of mind and psychology) -- Rachel Cooper Metapsychology 2009 Drs. Kendler and Parnas's book is an invitation into an oft-neglected area of psychiatry, an exploration of the philosophical underpinnings and its attendant complicated and multifaceted issues. -- Geoffrey Neimark American Journal of Psychiatry 2009 Kendler and Parnas undertake this exploration in a readable, cogent manner in Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry... The authors go to great lengths to ensure that the book is accessible for those with a limited background in philosophy. -- Geoffrey Neimark, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry 2009 This is a serious and important book... it is certainly one that researchers, scholars and anyone involved in trying to explain the nature of psychiatric disorders to a skeptical audience ought to read. -- Femi Oyebode British Journal of Psychiatry 2010