Understanding mental disorders : a philosophical approach to the medicine of the mind / Daniel Lafleur, Christopher Mole, and Holly Onclin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lafleur, Daniel, author.

Mole, Christopher, 1979- author.

Onclin, Holly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Understanding Mental Disorders aims to help current and future psychiatrists, and those who work with them, to think critically about the ethical, conceptual, and methodological questions that are raised by the theory and practice of psychiatry. It considers questions that concern the mind's relationship to the brain, the origins of our norms for thinking and behavior, and the place of psychiatry in medicine, and in society more generally. With a focus on the current debates around psychiatry's diagnostic categories, the authors ask where these categories come from, if psychiatry should be looking to find new categories that are based more immediately on observations of the brain, and whether psychiatrists need to employ any diagnostic categories at all. The book is a unique guide for readers who want to think carefully about the mind, mental disorders, and the practice of psychiatric medicine.

Contents:

What is mental disorder?

What makes a mental disorder mental?

What makes a mental disorder disordered?

Two ways in which social factors can contribute to mental disorder

Are we changing people when we should be changing societies?

Sexuality and disobedience

Psychiatric diagnosis

Psychiatry without diagnostic categories?

Categories unlike chemistry's

Giving the brain no more than its due.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429803185

0429803184

9780429440496

0429440499

9780429803192

0429803192

OCLC:

1077585795