Philosophical issues in psychiatry
Subtitle: explanation, phenomenology, and nosology
By: edited by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas.
Contributors: Kendler, Kenneth S., 1950-; Parnas, Josef.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780801889837
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Philosophy; Phenomenological psychology; Psychiatry -- Classification; Psychiatry; Philosophy, Medical
Genres: Classification.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explaining complex behavior / Sandra D. Mitchell; title: Etiological models in psychiatry: reductive and nonreductive approaches / Kenneth F. Schaffner; title: Levels of explanation in psychiatry / Dominic Murphy; title: Cause and explanation in psychiatry: an interventionist perspective / Jim Woodward; title: Causation in psychiatry / John Campbell; title: Varieties of "phenomenology": on description, understanding, and explanation in psychiatry / Josef Parnas and Louis A. Sass; title: Self-agency and mental causality / Shaun Gallagher; title: Real kinds but no true taxonomy: an essay in psychiatric systematics / Peter Zachar; title: The incredible insecurity of psychiatric nosology / Kenneth S. Kendler and Peter Zachar.