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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology
Kenneth S. Kendler
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Description for Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology
Paperback. D. Editor(s): Kendler, Kenneth S.; Parnas, Josef. Num Pages: 424 pages, 15, 10 black & white line drawings, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HPCF3; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 248 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596.
This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry-explanation, phenomenology, and nosology - and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis. An introduction by Kenneth S Kendler lays out the philosophical grounding of psychiatric practice. The first section addresses the concept of explanation, from the difficulties in describing complex behaviour to the categorization of psychological and biological causality. In the second section, contributors discuss experience, including the complex and vexing issue of how self-agency and free will affect mental health. The third and final section examines the organizational difficulties in psychiatric nosology and the instability of ... Read more
This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry-explanation, phenomenology, and nosology - and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis. An introduction by Kenneth S Kendler lays out the philosophical grounding of psychiatric practice. The first section addresses the concept of explanation, from the difficulties in describing complex behaviour to the categorization of psychological and biological causality. In the second section, contributors discuss experience, including the complex and vexing issue of how self-agency and free will affect mental health. The third and final section examines the organizational difficulties in psychiatric nosology and the instability of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
669g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418360
SKU
V9781421418360
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About Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, is the Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, where he is also a professor of human genetics and the director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics. He is the author of Genes, Environment, and Psychopathology. Josef Parnas, MD, DrMedSci, is a professor of psychiatry and ... Read more
Reviews for Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology
This is a serious and important book... it is certainly one that researchers, scholars and anyone involved in trying to explain the nature of psychiatric disorders to a skeptical audience ought to read. British Journal of Psychiatry This book asks the right questions, and sends us in the right direction.
S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H. Metapsychology A good ... Read more
S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H. Metapsychology A good ... Read more