LEADER 04044nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910806283003321 005 20240416173231.0 010 $a0-8018-8137-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000451201 035 $a(EBL)3318222 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432132 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11295007 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432132 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10478124 035 $a(PQKB)10086523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000128206 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11999980 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128206 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10069005 035 $a(PQKB)10253678 035 $a(OCoLC)794701451 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318222 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10070255 035 $a(OCoLC)923191858 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318222 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000451201 100 $a20021016d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe concepts of psychiatry $ea pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness /$fS. Nassir Ghaemi 205 $aJohn Hopkins pbks. ed. 210 $aBaltimore $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8018-8630-9 311 $a0-8018-7377-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index. 327 $aThe status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives -- What there is: of mind and brain -- How we know: understanding the mind -- What is scientific method? -- Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology -- What is scientific method in psychiatry? -- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy -- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry -- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? -- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? -- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry -- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis -- Being there: existential psychotherapy -- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology -- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism -- Why it is hard to be pluralist. 330 $aBecause most psychiatric illnesses are complex phenomena, no single method or approach is sufficient to explain them or the experiences of persons who have them. Yet in place of past dogmatisms, contemporary psychiatry has moved toward an "anything goes" eclecticism, resulting in much confusion. In The Concepts of Psychiatry, Dr. S. Nassir Ghaemi argues that the discipline of psychiatry can be understood best from a pluralistic perspective that goes beyond both dogmatism and eclecticism. Grounding his approach in the works of Karl Jaspers, Paul McHugh, Phillip Slavney, Leston Havens, and others, Ghaemi presents a philosophical discussion of the strengths of a pluralistic model and the weaknesses of other approaches, such as biological or psychoanalytic theories and biopsychiosocial eclecticism. He also re-examines the nature of scientific method as applied to psychiatry and seeks to shed conceptual light on our current approach to psychiatric diagnosis. The paperback edition includes a new preface by the author. 606 $aPsychiatry 606 $aPsychiatry$xPhilosophy 615 0$aPsychiatry. 615 0$aPsychiatry$xPhilosophy. 676 $a616.89 700 $aGhaemi$b S. Nassir$01598801 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806283003321 996 $aThe concepts of psychiatry$93921209 997 $aUNINA