Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1836-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

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 behavior 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 the existing diagnostic system. Each chapter has both an introduction by the editors and a concluding comment by another of the book’s contributors.
Contributors: John Campbell, Ph.D.; Thomas Fuchs, M.D., Ph.D.; Shaun Gallagher, Ph.D.; Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.; Sandra D. Mitchell, Ph.D.; Dominic P. Murphy, Ph.D.; Josef Parnas, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci.; Louis A. Sass, Ph.D.; Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D.; James F. Woodward, Ph.D.; Peter Zachar, Ph.D.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kendler, Kenneth S

Parnas, Josef

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction. Why Does Psychiatry Need Philosophy?
Part I: Explanation
Chapter 1.Explaining Complex Behavior
Chapter 2. Etiological Models in Psychiatry: Reductive and Nonreductive Approaches
Chapter 3. Levels of Explanation in Psychiatry
Chapter 4. Cause and Explanation in Psychiatry: An Interventionist Perspective
Chapter 5. Causation in Psychiatry
Part II: Phenomenology
Chapter 6. Varieties of "Phenomenology": On Description, Understanding, and Explanation in Psychiatry
Chapter 7. Self-agency and Mental Causality
Part III: Nosology
Chapter 8. Real Kinds but No True Taxonomy: An Essay in Psychiatric Systematics
Chapter 9. The Incredible Insecurity of Psychiatric Nosology
Epilogue
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kendler, Kenneth S
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.

Parnas, Josef
Josef Parnas, MD, DrMedSci, is a professor of psychiatry and the consultant medical director for the Department of Psychiatry at Copenhagen University. He is the codirector of the National Danish Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research.