The concepts of psychiatry [electronic resource] : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / S. Nassir Ghaemi.
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003Description: xxvi, 337 p. : illSubject(s): Psychiatry | Psychiatry -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 616.89 LOC classification: RC437.5 | .G47 2003Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index.
The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives -- What there is: of mind and brain -- How we know: understanding the mind -- What is scientific method? -- Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology -- What is scientific method in psychiatry? -- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy -- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry -- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? -- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? -- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry -- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis -- Being there: existential psychotherapy -- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology -- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism -- Why it is hard to be pluralist.
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