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UNINA9910789291403321 |
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Autore |
Zachar Peter |
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Titolo |
A metaphysics of psychopathology / / Peter Zachar |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London : , : MIT Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-32228-5 |
0-262-32227-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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Philosophical Psychopathology |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychology, Pathological |
Metaphysics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: psychiatry, science wars, and the problem of realism -- A scientifically-inspired pragmatism -- Instrumental nominalism -- Psychological and scientific essentialism -- Misplaced literalism -- Literalism and the distrust of authority -- The objective within, not beyond, experience -- Classification and the concept of psychiatric disorder -- Four conceptual abstractions: natural kind, historical concept, normative concept and practical kind -- Can grief really be a disorder? -- Is narcissistic personality disorder real? -- Psychiatry, progress, and thinking philosophically about philosophical concepts. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this study Peter Zachar considers such terms as 'real' and 'reality' - invoked in psychiatry but often obscure and remote from their instances - as abstract philosophical concepts. He then examines the implications of his approach for psychiatric classification and psychopathology. Proposing what he calls a scientifically inspired pragmatism, Zachar considers such topics as the essentialist bias, diagnostic literalism, and the concepts of natural kind and social construct. |
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