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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology

by Kenneth S. Kendler, Josef Parnas

  • Paperback
  • 424 pages
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm

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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. An introduction by Kenneth S Kendler lays out the philosophical grounding of psychiatric practice. The first section addresses the concept of explanation, from the difficulties in describing complex behaviour to the categorization of psychological and biological causality. In the second section, contributors discuss experience, including the complex and vexing issue of how self-agency and free will affect mental health. The third and final section examines the organizational difficulties in psychiatric nosology and the instability of the existing diagnostic system. Each chapter has both an introduction by the editors and a concluding comment by another of the book's contributors. Contributors: John Campbell, PhD; Thomas Fuchs, MD, PhD; Shaun Gallagher, PhD; Kenneth S Kendler, MD; Sandra D Mitchell, PhD; Dominic P Murphy, PhD; Josef Parnas, MD, Dr Med Sci; Louis A Sass, PhD; Kenneth F Schaffner, MD, PhD; James F Woodward, PhD; Peter Zachar, PhD.
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  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Johns Hopkins University Press

  • Published

    August 2015

  • Weight

    622g

  • Page Count

    424

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781421418360

  • ISBN-10

    1421418363

  • Eden Code

    4636896

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