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The Concepts of Psychiatry

Name: The Concepts of Psychiatry
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780801886300
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A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness

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By S. Nassir Ghaemi, Foreword by Paul R. McHugh
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 368

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Because most psychiatric illnesses are complex phenomena, no single method or approach is sufficient to explain them or the experiences of persons who suffer from them. In The Concepts of Psychiatry S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D. argues that the discipline of psychiatry can therefore be understood best from a pluralistic perspective. Grounding his approach in the works of Paul McHugh, Phillip Slavney, Leston Havens, and others, Ghaemi incorporates a more explicitly philosophical discussion of the strengths of a pluralistic model and the weaknesses of other approaches, such as biological or psychoanalytic theories, the biopsychosocial model, or eclecticism.Ghaemi's methodology is twofold: on the one hand, he applies philosophical ideas, such as utilitarian versus duty-based ethical models, to psychiatric practice. On the other hand, he subjects clinical psychiatric phenomena, such as psychosis or the Kraepelin nosology, to a conceptual analysis that is philosophically informed. This book will be of interest to professionals and students in psychiatry, as well as psychologists, social workers, philosophers, and general readers who are interested in understanding the field of psychiatry and its practices at a conceptual level.

Contents:

PART I: Theory: What Clinicians Think and Why1. The Status Quo: Dogmatism, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Alternatives

2. What There is: Of Mind and Brain

3. How We Know: Understanding the Mind

4. What is Scientific Method?

5. Reading Karl Jasper's General Psychopathology

6. What Is Scientific Method in Psychiatry

7. Darwin's Dangerous Method: The Essentialist Fallacy

8. What We Value: The Ethics of Psychiatry

9. Desire and Self: Hellenistic and Eastern Approaches

PART II: Practice: What Clinicians Do and Why

10. On the Nature of Mental Illness: Disease of Myth?

11. Order out of Chaos? The Evolution of Psychiatric Nosology

12. A Theory of DSM-IV: Ideal Types

13. Dimensions versus Categories

14. The Perils of Belief: Psychosis

15. The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune: Depression

16. Life's Roller Coaster: Mania

17. Being Self-Aware: Insight

18. Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or Hedonism?

19. Truth and Statistics: Problems of Empirical Psychiatry

20. A Climate of Opinion: What Remains of Psychoanalysis

21. Being There: Existential Psychotherapy

22. Beyond Eclecticism: Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology

PART III: After Eclecticism

23. Bridging the Biology-Psychology Dichotomy: The Hopes of Integrationism

24. Why It Is Hard to Be Pluralist

""Rare is the book that escapes descending into polemic on the subject of depression... Ghaemi provides a philosophical structure for considering unhappiness, but one designed to bolster the scientific validity of depression. As he makes clear, this is needed.""

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