Daniel Lafleur, Christopher Mole, Holly Onclin

Understanding Mental Disorders

A Philosophical Approach to the Medicine of the Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781138340831
• ISBN-10: 1138340839
• Artikelnr.: 56875886

Autorenporträt

Daniel Lafleur, MD, CM, FRCPC is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Christopher Mole, BA (Hons), PhD is a professor of philosophy, and chair of the Cognitive Systems Program, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Holly Onclin, BA (Hons) is a graduate of the Honours in Philosophy program at the University of British Columbia and a freelance illustrator in Vancouver.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Mental disorder 1.1 What is mental disorder? 1.2. What makes a
mental disorder mental? 1.3. What makes a mental disorder disordered? Part
II: Psychiatry and society 2.1. Two ways in which social factors can
contribute to mental disorder 2.2 Are we changing people when we should be
changing societies? 2.3 Sexuality and disobedience Part III: Dodging
nosology 3.1 Psychiatric diagnosis 3.2 Psychiatry without diagnostic
categories? 3.3 Categories unlike chemistry's 3.4 Giving the brain no more
than its due