The
concepts of psychiatry
a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness
Ghaemi, S. Nassir.
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ebrary, Inc
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bibliography
Electronic books.
mdu
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
2003
monographic
eng
xxvi, 337 p. : ill.
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.
S. Nassir Ghaemi.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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