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Trouble in Mind:

An Unorthodox Introduction to Psychiatry
  • ISBN-13: 9780801898068
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Dean F. MacKinnon
  • Price: AUD $120.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2011
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Psychology [JM]
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Trouble in Mind is an introduction to psychiatry that provides an original perspective on mental life, explaining the normal processes that become disrupted in mental illness. Dean F. MacKinnon offers a biological focus on the mental nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and self—destruction.Trouble in Mind offers alternatives to the orthodox view of psychiatry enshrined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Psychiatry, says MacKinnon, is not just a catalog of disorders defined by rules laid down by committees. He shows what mental illness can teach us about the mind, from molecules to memory to motivation to meaning.MacKinnon incorporates insights from philosophy, psychology, and neurobiology into a model of mental life. A psychiatrist must learn how perception is organized in the brain to understand hallucinations, learn how habits are normally developed to understand addiction, learn how the mind navigates fear and desire to understand emotional vulnerability.This model of mental life leads to a reformulation of psychiatry as a problem—solving endeavor in which a successful psychiatric encounter results in a multifaceted case formulation and a plan to negate danger, enhance function, and relieve distress.Trouble in Mind is a readable supplement to textbooks that focus on diagnosis. It employs mental illness as a way to understand the workings of the mind in the same way that other fields of medicine use illness to understand the mechanisms of the body.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Organic Mind
1.1. Why Mind Matters
1.2. A Brain Primer
1.3. Summary: Organic Mind
2. Elementary Mind
2.1. Not Shaken, Stirred: Inappropriate Arousal
2.2. Sate Ain't So: Immoderate Appetites
2.3. Sense Insensibility: Misperceptions
2.4. Nominal Anomaly: Confounded Cognition
2.5. Inaction in Action: Motion Sickness
2.6. Order Disorder: Dysregulated Actions
2.7. Summary: Elementary Mind
3. Integral Mind
3.1. Off -Track Vetting: Disrupted Attention
3.2. Forget-Me-Not, Not: Faulty Memory
3.3. Stark, Craving Mad: Bad Habits
3.4. Executive Bummery: Value Misjudgment
3.5. You Can't Always Want What You Get: Emotional Miscue
3.6. Displeasure Principle: Displaced Desire
3.7. Fear Factory: Hyperactive Alarm
3.8. Summary: Integral Mind
4. Synthetic Mind
4.1. Leaning Disability: Unbalanced Bias
4.2. Veer Goggles: Personality Non Grata
4.3. Cardinal Knowledge: Beyond Belief
4.4. No Thyself: Misshapen Identity
4.5. Quid Pro Woe: Cooperative Contretemps
4.6. Piece of Mind: Communicatino Breakdown
4.7. Social Insecurity: Dissaffiliation
4.8. Complain Speaking: Help-Seeking Misbehavior
4.9. Summary: Synthetic Mind
5. Psychiatric Mind
5.1. Psychiatry Rebuilt
5.2. Mending Mentation
5.3. Summary: Psychiatric Mind
Appendix A: The Official Version: A Guided Tour of the DSM
Appendix B: The Novice's Guide to Psychiatric Assessment
Glossary
References
Additional Reading
Index

""MacKinnon is a wonderful guide and interpreter... an excellent resource for new trainees, and experienced clinicians.""

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