Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Neuroscience has long had an impact on the field of psychiatry, and over the last two decades, with the advent of cognitive neuroscience and functiona... Lees meer

Anatomy of an Avatar

Philip Gerrans

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• This book applies a powerful framework in computational neuroscience (predictive coding and active inference) to explain psychiatric disorders that ar... Lees meer

Dementia

Hughes Julian

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the b... Lees meer

Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. This book looks at how people, communities, and nat... Lees meer

Lost in Dialogue

Giovanni Stanghellini

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• To be human means to be in dialogue. Dialogue is a unitary concept used by the author to address, in a coherent way, three essential issues for clinic... Lees meer

Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice

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• For an endeavour that is largely based on conversation it may seem obvious to suggest that psychotherapy is discursive. After all, therapists and clie... Lees meer

Thomas Szasz

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• Thomas Szasz wrote over thirty books and several hundred articles, replete with mordant criticism of psychiatry, in both scientific and popular period... Lees meer

Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self

Paul Lysaker, John Lysaker

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• With advances in medical technology and with many large scale, longitudinal studies now underway, social and biological science have built a convincin... Lees meer

Postpsychiatry

Patrick J Bracken, Philip Thomas

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• How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, mean... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Psychiatry

• Paperback | Engels | 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 psy... Lees meer

Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation

• Hardcover | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. This book looks at how people, communities, and nat... Lees meer

Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder

Somogy Varga

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• In a therapeutic encounter, the dialogue between therapist and client, along with the specific language used by a client to express thoughts, emotions... Lees meer

Vagueness in Psychiatry

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in almost every publication concerned with the classification of ment... Lees meer

Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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• Though many of the ethical issues important in adult mental health are of relevance in the child, there are a considerable number of issues special to... Lees meer

The Metaphor of Mental Illness

Neil Pickering

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, its legal and medical legitimacy, and the panoply of psychiatry and other mental health services... Lees meer

Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Psychiatry presents a unique array of difficult ethical questions. However, a major challenge is to approach psychiatry in a way that does justice to ... Lees meer

Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds

Eric Matthews

• Hardcover | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer su... Lees meer

Dementia

• Hardcover | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the b... Lees meer

Abraham Dilemma

Graham

• Hardcover | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• What is a religious or spiritual delusion? What does religious delusion reveal about the difference between good and bad spirituality? What is the con... Lees meer

Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine

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• Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provides... Lees meer

Psychiatric Neuroethics

Walter Glannon

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Advances in psychiatric research and clinical psychiatry in the last 30 years have given rise to a host of new questions that lie at the intersection ... Lees meer

The Virtuous Psychiatrist

Jennifer Radden, John Sadler

• Hardcover | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• The practice of psychiatric care for those with severe mental disorders is the focus of this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician. ... Lees meer

Ecology of the Brain

Thomas Fuchs

• Hardcover | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a ... Lees meer

Intruders in the Mind

Pablo Lopez-Silva, Tom McClelland

• Paperback | Engels | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Thought insertion is the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, which causes people to believe that external agents have inserted ideas or th... Lees meer