A metaphysics of psychopathology / / Peter Zachar

• Autore: Zachar Peter
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London : , : MIT Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetto topico: Psychology, Pathological; Metaphysics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A metaphysics of psychopathology
• ISBN: 0-262-32228-5; 0-262-32227-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789291403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophical psychopathology.