Psychiatry in the scientific image

Psychiatry in the scientific image / Dominic Murphy.

An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences. In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Dominic (Dominic Paul)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
©2006
Series:Philosophical psychopathology.
Subjects:
Psychiatry > Philosophy.
Psychiatry.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Medical personnel.
Humanities.
Psychology.
behavioral sciences.
philosophy.
humanities.
Philosophy
Medicine > Philosophy
Medical personnel
Humanities
Psychiatry
Psychiatry > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The concept of mental disorder
  • 3. Psychiatry and folk psychology
  • 4. The medical model and the foundations of psychiatric explanation
  • 5. The limits of mechanistic explanation in psychiatry
  • 6. A More or less realist theory of validation as causal explanation
  • 7. Social construction and sociological causation
  • 8. Evolutionary explanations of psychopathology
  • 9. Classification
  • 10. Classification in psychiatry.

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