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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zachar, Peter.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 28.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Philosophy.

Psychology.

Psychiatry--Philosophy.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., c2000.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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. Contradicitng 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:

PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Preface: What this book is about

PART I: THE ATTACK ON PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 1. Psychology in Trouble

Chapter 2. Trouble from Psychiatry: Biomedical materialism

Chapter 3. Trouble From Philosophy: Eliminative materialism

PART II: THE ROBUSTNESS OF PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 4. Why there is no such thing as "Folk Psychology"

Chapter 5. A Critique of Anti-Anthropomorphism

Chapter 6. The Anchors of Psychology

Chapter 7. Materialism Without Physicalism

PART III: THE PSYCHOLOGY IN PSYCHIATRY

Chapter 8. Diagnosis, Behavior, and First-Person Information

Chapter 9. Evolution, Adaptation, and Psychiatry

Chapter 10. Psychiatry, Science, and Anti-essentialism

Chapter 11. Psychiatry and Reality

Chapter 12. Psychiatry and the Rhetoric of Morality

Chapter 13. Reflections

References

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9786612163937

9781282163935

1282163930

9789027299864

9027299862

OCLC:

50103464