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The Concepts of Psychiatry : A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ghaemi, S. Nassir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Edición:John Hopkins pbks. ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Islamic approaches
  • On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth?
  • Order out of chaos: from insanity to DSM-III to a pluralistic 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
  • Calvinism or hedonism?
  • Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry
  • A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis
  • Being there: existential psychotherapy
  • Beyond eclecticism: teaching psychotherapy in the twenty-first century
  • Bridging the biology/psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism
  • Why it is hard to be pluralist.