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Philosophical issues in psychiatry III

Philosophical issues in psychiatry III

The Nature and Sources of Historical Change

9780198725978
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Psychiatry has long struggled with the nature of its diagnoses. The problems raised by questions about the nature of psychiatric illness are particularly fascinating because they sit at the intersection of philosophy, empirical psychiatric/psychological research, measurement theory, historical tradition and policy. In being the only medical specialty that diagnoses and treats mental illness, psychiatry has been subject to major changes in the last 150 years. This book explores the forces that have shaped these changes and especially how substantial internal advances in our knowledge of the nature and causes of psychiatric illness have interacted with a plethora of external forces that have impacted on the psychiatric profession. It includes contributions from philosophers of science with an interest in psychiatry, psychiatrists and psychologists with expertise in the history of their field and historians of psychiatry. Each chapter isaccompanied by an introduction and a commentary. The result is a dynamic discussion about the nature of psychiatric disorders, and a book that is compelling reading for those in the field of mental health, history of science and medicine, and philosophy.
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OUP Oxford
87628
9780198725978
9780198725978

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Publication date
2014
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
400
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 234
Weight (g)
580
  • Preface; Table of Contents; List of Contrubutors; Introduction: Applying the Tools of the History and Philosophy of Science to Psychiatry; Part I: Nature of Historical Change in Science; Section 1: Objectivity and Scientific Change; Introduction to Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Scientific Change; Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Scientific Change; For Objective, Value-Laden, Contextualist Pluralism; Section 2: Change in Psychopathology; Introduction to History and Epistemology of Psychopathology; History and Epistemology of Psychopathology; Can Hybridity Overcome Dualism?; Section 3: Scientific Disagreement in the Medical Context; Introduction to Expert Disagreement and Medical Authority; Expert Disagreement and Medical Authority; Trust, Dissent and Decision Vectors; Section 4: The Social, the Cultural, and Psychiatric Kinds; Introduction to Varieties of Social Constructionism and the Problem of Progress in Psychiatry; Varieties of Social Constructionism and the Problem of Progress in Psychiatry; The Role of Cultural Configurators in the Formation of Mental Symptoms; Part II: History of Broad Movements/Structures within Psychiatry; Section 5: The Psychiatric History of the Diencephalon; Introduction to Biography of a brain structure: studying the diencephalon as an epistemic object; Biography of a brain structure: studying the diencephalon as an epistemic object; Some Reflections on Historiographic Strategies for the Neurosciences; Section 6: The History of Psychiatry as Interdisciplinary History; Introduction to On Attitudes Toward Philosophy and Psychology in German Psychiatry, 1867-1917; On Attitudes Toward Philosophy and Psychology in German Psychiatry, 1867-1917; Interdisciplinarity vs. compartmentalization: an eternal dilemma in psychiatry; Section 7: Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the United States; Introduction to The Development of Psychoanalysis in the Context of American Psychiatry; The Development of Psychoanalysis in the Context of American Psychiatry; Decline of psychoanalysis to the advantage of what?; Section 8: The Operational Revolution; Introduction to Psychiatry Made Easy: Operation(al)ism and Some of its Consequences; Psychiatry Made Easy: Operation(al)ism and Some of its Consequences; Hempel as a Critic of Bridgmans Operationalism: Lessons for Psychiatry from the History of Science; Section 9: The Evolution of Genetic Explanation in Psychiatry; Introduction to the Nature of Nature; The Nature of Nature; Is it Time for a Copenhagen Interpretation in Behavioral Genetics?; Section 10: Psychiatry and Evolution; Introduction to What Can Evolution Tell us About the Healthy Mind?; What Can Evolution Tell us About the Healthy Mind?; What can History and Social Studies of Sciences Teach us about Evolutionary Psychiatry?; Part III: Specific Disorders from an Historical Perspective; Section 11: Schizophrenia and the Dopamine Hypothesis; Introduction to Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: An Updated Perspective; The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: An Updated Perspective; Why is the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia the Only Game in Town?; Section 12: Conceptual status of depression today; Introduction to An Overview in a Biopsychosocioeconomic Context; An Overview in a Bio-psycho-socio-economic Context; What do We Want from A Depression Diagnosis?; Section 13: The Shaping of Autism; Introduction to On the Ratio of Science to Activism in the Shaping of Autism; On the Ratio of Science to Activism in the Shaping of Autism; The Shaping of Autism and Other Psychiatric Disorders: An Alternative Perspective; Section 14: The decision to include or exclude a diagnosis in psychiatric nosology: The case of premenstrual dysphoric disorder; Introduction to A DSM Insiders History of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder; A DSM Insiders History of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder; The Construction of a Diagnosis is Not a Scientific Issue;
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