Madness and the Demand for Recognition

Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Developments in mental health activism pose a radical challenge to psychiatric and societal understandings of madness. Mad Pride and mad-positive acti... Lees meer

Vagueness in Psychiatry

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• Blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in almost every publication concerned with the classification of ment... Lees meer

Recovery of People with Mental Illness

Abraham Rudnick

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• It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. Before then, it was ... Lees meer

Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry II

Kenneth S Kendler, Josef Parnas

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• Psychiatric and psychological practice and research is critically dependent on diagnosis. Yet the nature of psychiatric diagnosis and the rules by whi... Lees meer

Intruders in the Mind

Pablo Lopez-Silva, Tom McClelland

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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 th... Lees meer

Psychiatric Neuroethics

Walter Glannon

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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 ... Lees meer

Nature and Narrative

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• Part of the series "International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry", this work aims to build links between the sciences and humanities in psy... Lees meer

The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement

Nancy Nyquist Potter

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• What is defiance, and when does defiant behaviour impede one's ability to aim at flourishing? People who are defiant can present perplexing challenges... Lees meer

Lost in Dialogue

Giovanni Stanghellini

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• To be human means to be in dialogue. Dialogue is a unitary concept used by the author to address, in a coherent way, three essential issues for clinic... Lees meer

Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry III

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• Psychiatry has been subject to major changes in the last 150 years. This book explores the forces that have shaped these changes and how they have imp... Lees meer

Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice

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• For an endeavour that is largely based on conversation it may seem obvious to suggest that psychotherapy is discursive. After all, therapists and clie... Lees meer

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects

David Jopling

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• Psychoanalysis has had to defend itself from a barrage of criticism throughout its history. Nevertheless, there are many who claim to have been helped... Lees meer

One Century of Karl Jasper' General Psychopathology

Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs

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• 2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus m... Lees meer

Madness and Modernism

Louis Sass

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• The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transf... Lees meer

Responsibility and Psychopathy

Luca Malatesti, John McMillan

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Psychopaths have emotional impairments that can be expressed in persistent criminal behavior. UK and US law has traditionally excused disordered indiv... Lees meer

Philosophy of Psychedelics

Chris Letheby

• Hardcover | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psycholog... Lees meer

Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder

Somogy Varga

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• In a therapeutic encounter, the dialogue between therapist and client, along with the specific language used by a client to express thoughts, emotions... Lees meer

Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds

Eric Matthews

• Hardcover | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• 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 su... Lees meer

The Sublime Object of Psychiatry

Angela Woods

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• Schizophrenia has been one of psychiatry's most contested diagnostic categories. It has also served as a metaphor for cultural theorists to interpret ... Lees meer

Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine

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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... Lees meer

Dementia

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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 b... Lees meer

Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder

Derek Bolton, Jonathan Hill

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Philosophical ideas about the mind, brain, and behavior can seem theoretical and unimportant when placed alongside the urgent questions of mental dist... Lees meer

Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience Philosophical perspectives (Paperback)

Matthew Broome

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• Neuroscience has long had an impact on the field of psychiatry, and over the last two decades, with the advent of cognitive neuroscience and functiona... Lees meer

Free Will and Responsibility

John S Callender

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• This book explores the evolution of morality and the roles of reason and emotion in the making of moral judgments. It describes scientific research on... Lees meer