LEADER 05320oam 2200673 a 450 001 9910965955603321 005 20010424100225.0 010 $a9798400624926 010 $a9780313001048 010 $a0313001049 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400624926 035 $a(CKB)111056485429136 035 $a(OCoLC)567903514 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10002000 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000120506 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128612 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120506 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080813 035 $a(PQKB)11760585 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000371 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10002000 035 $a(OCoLC)55102735 035 $a(OCoLC)41439512 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400624926BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000371 035 $a(Perlego)4202174 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485429136 100 $a19990517e20002024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChemicals for the mind $epsychopharmacology and human consciousness /$fErnest Keen 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2000. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (164 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780275967758 311 08$a0275967751 320 $aIncludes bibliographical refererences (p. [131]-138) and index. 327 $aCover -- Chemicals for the Mind -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- NOTES -- chapter 1 SCIENCE, MORALITY, AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- PERSONAL PROBLEMS AND IMPERSONAL PILLS -- PHILOSOPHICAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS -- PROFESSIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- FAMILY IMPLICATIONS -- THE OBLIGATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- NOTES -- chapter 2 ON DUALISM Why Psychology Needs Philosophy -- DESCARTES' DUALISM -- NINETEENTH- CENTURY MORAL THERAPY -- CONTEMPORARY IDEAS -- UNDERCUTTING DUALISM -- NOTES -- chapter 3 PSYCHOLOGY'S STRUGGLE WITH DUALISM -- MENTAL SCIENCE -- EARLY MENTAL SCIENCE -- GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY -- PSYCHOANALYSIS -- THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION -- PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE -- PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY -- FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE -- RESOLUTION? -- NOTES -- chapter 4 ON BIOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM Culture and Ideology -- CAUSAL FACTORS IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY -- IS THIS A PROFESSIONAL CRISIS? -- IS THIS A PHILOSOPHICAL CRISIS? -- DESCRIBING ANEW -- NOTES -- chapter 5 DUALISM AND OBJECTIFICATION -- WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH CONSCIOUSNESS? -- Enacting Dualism -- Denying Dualism -- RESISTANCE TO TECHNOLOGY -- THE COSTS OF MASTERING NATURE -- MEDICALIZATION OF MADNESS -- NOTES -- chapter 6 OBJECTIFICATION AND VIOLENCE -- PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL THEORY -- METAPHORS IN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE -- NONVIOLENT HELP -- WHEN I S PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY NOT HELPFUL? -- SOME IMPLICATIONS -- NOTES -- chapter 7 INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE IN PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY -- ORIENTALISM -- CONCEALMENT -- AN EXPERT PSYCHIATRY -- AN ALTERNATIVE TO VIOLENCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- chapter 8 QUESTIONING PSYCHOLOGICAL MODERNITY -- PSYCHOLOGICAL MODERNITY -- FROM JAMES TO ECOLOGY3 -- FROM ECOLOGY TO PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY -- IS PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY IMMORAL? -- ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE -- NOTES -- References -- Index. 330 8 $aSilently orienting us to the world are traditions embedded in our language. These traditions shape how we understand the necessities and possibilities of life and truth. Dualism, a metaphysical theory, is such a tradition, and, in Keen's view, the separate discourses of science and morality create double meanings in our experience. Psychopharmacology is a critical intersection of these two worlds, where physical compounds are used to change mental life. Increasingly, the language of neurochemistry formulates that treatment. To control ennui with chemicals is to direct our attention away from what is wrong in our lives and to focus instead on what we can control easily, by taking a pill. Mental life has become marginal in biologically reductionistic discourse. While the demystification of human consciousness is surely a cornerstone of modernity, in excess it indulges a world design where nothing is sacred and everything becomes just another phenomenon to which we owe nothing. Our practice of manipulating consciousness as an object surrenders the complex reflections of moral ambiguity and struggle. Following the example of our doctors, Keen asserts, we the population neglect what is wrong in our lives. Like the rest of nature, our minds become exploitable. And properties of consciousness become commodities sold by prescription in drug stores. A provocative analysis of psychopharmacology this will be of interest to treatment professionals, from psychologists, psychiatrists, and nurses to social workers, as well as the interested public. 606 $aPsychopharmacology 606 $aConsciousness 606 $aAltered states of consciousness 615 0$aPsychopharmacology. 615 0$aConsciousness. 615 0$aAltered states of consciousness. 676 $a615/.78 700 $aKeen$b Ernest$f1937-$01796776 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965955603321 996 $aChemicals for the mind$94356952 997 $aUNINA