Psychological concepts and biological psychiatry : a philosophical analysis / Peter Zachar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zachar, Peter

Series:

Advances in consciousness research 1381-589X ; v. 28.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Philosophy.

Psychology.

Psychiatry--Philosophy.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

xix, 340 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2000]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary work addresses the question, What role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind? It offers readers something unique both by systematically comparing the writings of eliminativist philosophers of mind with the writings of the most committed proponents of biological psychiatry, and by critically scrutinizing their shared "anti-anthropomorphism" from the standpoint of a diagnostician and therapist. Contradicting the contemporary assumption that common sense psychology has already been proven futile, and we are just waiting for an adequate scientifically-based replacement, this book provides explicit philosophical and psychological arguments showing why, if they did not already have both cognitive and psychodynamic psychologies, philosophers and scientists would have to invent them to better understand brains. (Series A)

Contents:

Preface: What this book is about

Pt. I. The Attack on Psychology. 1. Psychology In Trouble. 2. Trouble From Psychiatry: Biomedical Materialism. 3. Trouble From Philosophy: Eliminative Materialism

Pt. II. The Robustness of Psychology. 4. Why There is No Such Thing as "Folk Psychology" 5. A Critique of Anti-anthropomorphism. 6. The Anchors of Psychology. 7. Materialism Without Physicalism

Pt. III. The Psychology in Psychiatry. 8. Diagnosis, Behavior, and First-Person Information. 9. Evolution, Adaptation, and Psychiatry. 10. Psychiatry, Science, and Anti-essentialism. 11. Psychiatry and Reality. 12. Psychiatry and the Rhetoric of Morality. 13. Reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-329) and indexes.

ISBN:

9027251487

1556199910

OCLC:

44454722