The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion (International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry)

this Is A Comprehensive Resource Of Original Essays By Leading Thinkers Exploring The Newly Emerging Inter-disciplinary Field Of The Philosophy Of Psychiatry. The Contributors Aim To Define This Exciting Field And To Highlight The Philosophical Assumptions And Issues That Underlie Psychiatric Theory And Practice, The Category Of Mental Disorder, And Rationales For Its Social, Clinical And Legal Treatment. as A Branch Of Medicine And A Healing Practice, Psychiatry Relies On Presuppositions That Are Deeply And Unavoidably Philosophical. Conceptions Of Rationality, Personhood And Autonomy Frame Our Understanding And Treatment Of Mental Disorder. Philosophical Questions Of Evidence, Reality, Truth, Science, And Values Give Meaning To Each Of The Social Institutions And Practices Concerned With Mental Health Care. The Psyche, The Mind And Its Relation To The Body, Subjectivity And Consciousness, Personal Identity And Character, Thought, Will, Memory, And Emotions Are Equally The Stuff Of Traditional Philosophical Inquiry And Of The Psychiatric Enterprise. A New Research Field—the Philosophy Of Psychiatry—began To Form During The Last Two Decades Of The Twentieth Century. Prompted By A Growing Recognition That Philosophical Ideas Underlie Many Aspects Of Clinical Practice, Psychiatric Theorizing And Research, Mental Health Policy, And The Economics And Politics Of Mental Health Care, Academic Philosophers, Practitioners, And Philosophically Trained Psychiatrists Have Begun A Series Of Vital, Cross-disciplinary Exchanges. this Volume Provides A Sampling Of The Research Yield Of Those Exchanges. Leading Thinkers In This Area, Including Clinicians, Philosophers, Psychologists, And Interdisciplinary Teams, Provide Original Discussions That Are Not Only Expository And Critical, But Also A Reflection Of Their Authors' Distinctive And Often Powerful And Imaginative Viewpoints And Theories. All The Discussions Break New Theoretical Ground. As Befits Such An Interdisciplinary Effort, They Are Methodologically Eclectic, And Varied And Divergent In Their Assumptions And Conclusions; Together, They Comprise A Significant New Exploration, Definition, And Mapping Of The Philosophical Aspects Of Psychiatric Theory And Practice. Contents Foreword Contributors Introduction PART I: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND NORMALCY 1. Cognition: Brain Pain: Psychotic Cognition, Hallucination and Delusions 2. Affectivity: Depression and Mania 3. Desire: Paraphilia and Distress in DSM-IV 4. Character: Moral Treatment and the Personality Disorders 5. Action: Volitional Disorder and Addiction 6. Self-ascription: Thought Insertion 7. Memory: The Nature and Significance of Dissociation 8. Body: Disorders of Embodiment 9. Identity: Personal Identity, Characterization Identity and Mental Disorder 10. Development: Disorders of Childhood and Youth PART II: ANTINOMIES OF PRACTICE 11. Diagnosis/Antidiagnosis 12. Understanding/Explanation 13. Reductionism/Antireductionism 14. Facts/Values: Ten Principles of Values-Based Medicine PART III: NORMS, VALUES, AND ETHICS 15. Gender 16. Race and Culture 17. Competence 18. Dangerousness: "The General Duty to All the World" 19. Treatment and Research Ethics 20. Criminal Responsibility 21. Religion PART IV: THEORETICAL MODELS 22. Darwinian Models of Psychopathology 23. Psychoanalytic Models: Freud's Debt to Philosophy and His Copernican Revolution 24. Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Models: Understanding and Interpretation in Psychiatry 25. Neurobiological Models: An Unnecessary Divide — Neural Models in Psychiatry 26. Cognitive-Behavioral Models: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy 27. Social Constructionist Models: Making Order out of Disorder — On the Social Construction of Madness PART V: CIRCUMSCRIBING MENTAL DISORDER 28. Setting Benchmarks for Psychiatric Concepts 29. Defining Mental Disorder 30. Mental Health and Its Limits Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z This is a comprehensive volume of essays by leading thinkers that explores the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry