Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

by Kendler, Kenneth S., M.D.; Parnas, Josef

• ISBN13: 9780801889837
• ISBN10: 0801889839
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781421419121
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-21
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., 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, most recently, Genes, Environment, and Psychopathology. Josef Parnas, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci., is a professor of psychiatry and the consultant medical director for the Department of Psychiatry at Copenhagen University. He is also the codirector of the National Danish Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Why Does Psychiatry Need Philosophy?	p. 1
Explanation
Explaining Complex Behavior	p. 19
Comment: Psychiatry, Scientific Laws, and Realism about Entities	p. 38
Etiological Models in Psychiatry: Reductive and Nonreductive Approaches	p. 48
Comment: Understanding Causes and Reversing Outcomes	p. 90
Levels of Explanation in Psychiatry	p. 99
Comment: Taming Causal Complexity	p. 125
Cause and Explanation in Psychiatry: An Interventionist Perspective	p. 132
Comment: Psychological Causation without Physical Causation	p. 184
Causation in Psychiatry	p. 196
Comment: Levels of Explanation and Variable Choice	p. 216
Phenomenology
Varieties of "Phenomenology": On Description, Understanding, and Explanation in Psychiatry	p. 239
Comment: Beyond Descriptive Phenomenology	p. 278
Self-agency and Mental Causality	p. 286
Comment: Disorders of Agency in Psychiatric Syndromes	p. 312
Nosology
Real Kinds but No True Taxonomy: An Essay in Psychiatric Systematics	p. 327
Comment: A Tail of a Tiger	p. 355
The Incredible Insecurity of Psychiatric Nosology	p. 368
Comment: Psychiatric Diagnosis	p. 383
Epilogue	p. 387
Index	p. 397
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