02852nam 2200613 450 991078929140332120230803201905.00-262-32228-50-262-32227-7(CKB)3710000000092368(EBL)3339757(SSID)ssj0001134351(PQKBManifestationID)11744403(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134351(PQKBWorkID)11162419(PQKB)10545368(StDuBDS)EDZ0000889721(MiAaPQ)EBC3339757(OCoLC)878138866(MdBmJHUP)muse33131(Au-PeEL)EBL3339757(CaPaEBR)ebr10843943(CaONFJC)MIL580361(EXLCZ)99371000000009236820140321h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA metaphysics of psychopathology /Peter ZacharCambridge, Massachusetts ;London :MIT Press,2014.©20141 online resource (287 p.)Philosophical PsychopathologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-262-02704-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Philosophical psychopathology.Psychology, PathologicalMetaphysicsPsychology, Pathological.Metaphysics.616.89Zachar Peter1490684MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789291403321A metaphysics of psychopathology3721080UNINA