The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area every published - one that is essential for both students and researchers in this field. Cover Contents Contributors 1 The Next Hundred Years: Watching our Ps and Q SECTION I: HISTORY 2 Introduction: History 3 The Insanity Defense as a History of Mental Disorder 4 Mental Health as Moral Virtue: Some Ancient Arguments 5 Aristotle, Plato, and the Anti-Psychiatrists: Comment on Irwin 6 Wilhelm Griesinger: Philosophy as the Origin of a New Psychiatry 7 The Philosophical Roots of Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology 8 From Madness to Mental Illness: Psychiatry and Biopolitics in Michel Foucault 9 The Epistemological Value of Depression Memoirs: A Meta-Analysis SECTION II: CONTEXTS OF CARE 10 Introduction: Contexts of Care 11 Challenges to the Modernist Identity of Psychiatry: User Empowerment and Recovery 12 Race and Gender in Philosophy of Psychiatry: Science, Relativism, and Phenomenology 13 Why Psychiatry Should Fear Medicalization 14 Technology and Psychiatry 15 Cure and Recovery SECTION III: ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS 16 Introduction: Establishing Relationships 17 Varieties of Self-Awareness 18 Interpersonal Relating 19 Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology 20 Other Minds, Autism, and Depth in Human Interaction 21 Empathic Foundations of Clinical Knowledge 22 Discourse and Diseases of the Psyche 23 Philosophical Resources for the Psychiatric Interview SECTION IV: SUMMONING CONCEPTS 24 Introduction: Summoning Concepts 25 Naturalist Accounts of Mental Disorder 26 Values-Based Practice: Topsy-Turvy Take-Home Messages from Ordinary Language Philosophy (and a Few Next Steps) 27 Cognitive Science and Explanations of Psychopathology 28 What is Mental Illness? 29 Vice and Mental Disorders 30 Rationality and Sanity: The Role of Rationality Judgments in Understanding Psychiatric Disorders 31 Boundary Problems: Negotiating the Challenges of Responsibility and Loss 32 Ordering Disorder: Mental Disorder, Brain Disorder, and Therapeutic Intervention 33 Mental Disorder: Can Merleau-Ponty Take Us Beyond the “Mind–Brain” Problem? SECTION V: DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 34 Introduction: Descriptive Psychopathology 35 Anxiety and Phobias: Phenomenologies, Concepts, Explanations 36 Depression and the Phenomenology of Free Will 37 Body Image Disorders 38 The Phenomenology of Affectivity 39 Delusion: The Phenomenological Approach 40 Thought Insertion, Self-Awareness, and Rationality 41 The Disunity of Consciousness in Psychiatric Disorders 42 Delusion: Cognitive Approaches—Bayesian Inference and Compartmentalization SECTION VI: ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES 43 Introduction: Assessment and Diagnostic Categories 44 Mapping the Domain of Mental Illness 45 Values in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification 46 Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis 47 Understanding Mania and Depression 48 Autism and the Philosophy of Mind 49 Dementia is Dead, Long Live Ageing: Philosophy and Practice in Connection with “Dementia” 50 What is Addiction? 51 Identity and Addiction: What Alcoholic Memoirs Teach 52 Personality Disorder and Validity: A History of Controversy 53 Personal Identity and Identity Disorders SECTION VII: EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING 54 Introduction: Explanation and Understanding 55 Causation and Mechanisms in Psychiatry 56 Natural Kinds 57 The Medical Model and the Philosophy of Science 58 Reliability, Validity, and the Mixed Blessings of Operationalism 59 Reduction and Reductionism in Psychiatry 60 Diagnostic Prediction and Prognosis: Getting from Symptom to Treatment 61 Clinical Judgment, Tacit Knowledge, and Recognition in Psychiatric Diagnosis 62 Neural Mechanisms of Decision-Making and the Personal Level 63 Psychopathology and the Enactive Mind 64 Could Psychoanalysis be a Science? SECTION VIII: CURE AND CARE 65 Introduction: Cure and Care 66 Responsibility without Blame: Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Practice 67 Depression, Decisional Capacity, and Personal Autonomy 68 Psychopharmacology and the Self 69 Practical Neuropsychiatric Ethics 70 Placebo Effects in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy 71 Being Unconscious: Heidegger and Freud 72 Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Philosophical Appraisal 73 Understanding and Healing: Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Era of Neuroscience Author Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z Subject Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area ever published. It assembles challenging and insightful contributions from key philosophers and others to the interactive fields of philosophy and psychiatry. Each contributions is original, stimulating, thorough, and clearly and engagingly written - with no potentially significant philosophical stone left unturned. Broad in scope, the book includes coverage of several areas of philosophy, including philosophy of mind, science, and ethics. For philosophers and psychiatrists, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry is a landmark publication in the field - one that will be of value to both students and researchers in this rapidly growing area. Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. The 'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry' offers a comprehensive reference resource for this area, suitable for both students and researchers in this field.