The concepts of psychiatry [[electronic resource] ] : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / / S. Nassir Ghaemi

• Autore: Ghaemi S. Nassir
• 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
• 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.: 9910777586703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II