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The concepts of psychiatry : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / S. Nassir Ghaemi.
Van Pelt Library RC437.5 .G47 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghaemi, S. Nassir.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry.
- Psychiatry--Philosophy.
- Psychiatry--methods.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Psychological Theory.
- Psychotherapy--methods.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychiatry--methods.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Psychological Theory.
- Psychotherapy--methods.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- A sensational success when it comes to waking us up from our conceptually impoverished stupors... Ghaemi has given us a book that is not only painfully unusual by today's standards, but so stubbornly and clearly thought out as well. Like Karl Jaspers, William James would have been proud of his disciple's work." -- "Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Contents:
- The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives
- What there is: of mind and brain
- How we know: understanding the mind
- What is scientific method?
- Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology
- What is scientific method in psychiatry?
- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy
- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry
- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches
- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth?
- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology
- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types
- Dimensions versus categories
- The perils of belief: psychosis
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression
- Life's rollercoaster: mania
- Being self-aware: insight
- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism?
- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry
- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis
- Being there: existential psychotherapy
- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology
- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism
- Why it is hard to be pluralist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801873770
- OCLC:
- 50858919
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