The concepts of psychiatry [electronic resource] : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / S. Nassir Ghaemi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.Description: xxvi, 337 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.89 21
LOC classification:
  • RC437.5 .G47 2003eb
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Contents:
The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives -- What there is: of mind and brain -- How we know: understanding the mind -- What is scientific method? -- Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology -- What is scientific method in psychiatry? -- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy -- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry -- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? -- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? -- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry -- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis -- Being there: existential psychotherapy -- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology -- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism -- Why it is hard to be pluralist.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index.

The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives -- What there is: of mind and brain -- How we know: understanding the mind -- What is scientific method? -- Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology -- What is scientific method in psychiatry? -- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy -- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry -- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? -- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? -- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry -- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis -- Being there: existential psychotherapy -- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology -- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism -- Why it is hard to be pluralist.

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