02406nam a2200325Ia 4500 ebr10070255 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 021016s2003 mdua sb 001 0 eng d 2002152164 0801881374 0801873770 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)70757364 RC437.5 .G47 2003eb 616.89 21 Ghaemi, S. Nassir. The concepts of psychiatry [electronic resource] : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / S. Nassir Ghaemi. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xxvi, 337 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Psychiatry. Psychiatry Philosophy. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10070255 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 42718 42718