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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology / edited by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry--Philosophy.
- Psychiatry.
- Phenomenological psychology.
- Psychiatry--Classification.
- Genre:
- Classification.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 p.)
- Edition:
- Johns Hopkins paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry - explanation, phenomenology, and nosology - and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Explaining complex behavior / Sandra D. Mitchell
- Etiological models in psychiatry : reductive and nonreductive approaches / Kenneth F. Schaffner
- Levels of explanation in psychiatry / Dominic Murphy
- Cause and explanation in psychiatry : an interventionist perspective / James F. Woodward
- Causation in psychiatry / John Campbell
- Varieties of "phenomenology" : on description, understanding, and explanation in psychiatry / Josef Parnas and Louis A. Sass
- Self-agency and mental causality / Shaun Gallagher
- Real kinds but no true taxonomy : an essay in psychiatric systematics / Peter Zachar
- The incredible insecurity of psychiatric nosology / Kenneth S. Kendler and Peter Zachar.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1912-2
- OCLC:
- 919612893
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