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Autore: | Ghaemi S. Nassir |
Titolo: | The concepts of psychiatry [[electronic resource] ] : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / / S. Nassir Ghaemi |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 |
Edizione: | John Hopkins pbks. ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.89 |
Soggetto topico: | Psychiatry |
Psychiatry - Philosophy | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The concepts of psychiatry |
ISBN: | 0-8018-8137-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452031003321 |
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