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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825898803321

Titolo

Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry : Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology / / edited by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : The Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-4214-1912-2

Edizione

[Johns Hopkins paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Disciplina

616.89001

Soggetti

Psychiatry - Philosophy

Psychiatry

Phenomenological psychology

MEDICAL - Internal Medicine

MEDICAL - Evidence-Based Medicine

MEDICAL - Diseases

MEDICAL - Clinical Medicine

HEALTH & FITNESS - Diseases - General

Philosophy, Medical

Classification

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Explaining complex behavior / Sandra D. Mitchell -- Etiological models in psychiatry : reductive and nonreductive approaches / Kenneth F. Schaffner -- Levels of explanation in psychiatry / Dominic Murphy -- Cause and explanation in psychiatry : an interventionist perspective / James F. Woodward -- Causation in psychiatry / John Campbell -- Varieties of "phenomenology" : on description, understanding, and explanation in psychiatry / Josef Parnas and Louis A. Sass -- Self-agency and mental causality / Shaun Gallagher -- Real kinds but no true taxonomy : an essay in psychiatric systematics / Peter Zachar -- The incredible insecurity of psychiatric nosology / Kenneth S. Kendler and Peter Zachar.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--Jacket.