Trouble in Mind: An Unorthodox Introduction to Psychiatry

by Mackinnon, Dean F.

• ISBN13: 9780801898075
• ISBN10: 0801898072
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-01
• Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS

Summary

Orthodox psychiatric texts are often rich in facts, but thin in concept. Depression may be defined as a dysfunction of mood, but of what use is a mood? How can anxiety be both symptom and adaptation to stress? What links the disparate disabilities of perception and reasoning in schizophrenia? Why does the same situation push one person into drink, drugs, danger, or despair and bounce harmlessly off another?Trouble in Mind is unorthodox because it models adaptive mental function along with mental illness to answer questions like these. From experience as a Johns Hopkins clinician, educator, and researcher, Dean F. MacKinnon offers a unique perspective on the nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and self-destruction. He shows what mental illness can teach about the mind, from molecules to memory to motivation to meaning.MacKinnon's fascinating model of the mind as a vital function will enlighten anyone intrigued by the mysteries of thought, feeling, and behavior. Clinicians in training will especially appreciate the way mental illness can illuminate normal mental processes, as medical illness in general teaches about normal body functions. For students, the book also includes useful guides to psychiatric assessment and diagnosis.

Author Biography

Dean F. Mackinnon, M.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Organic Mind	p. 1
Why Mind Matters	p. 8
A Brain Primer	p. 11
Summary: Organic Mind	p. 26
Elementary Mind	p. 29
Not Shaken, Stirred: Inappropriate Arousal	p. 33
Sate Ain't So: Immoderate Appetites	p. 39
Sense Insensibility: Misperceptions	p. 48
Nominal Anomaly: Confounded Cognition	p. 54
Inaction in Action: Motion Sickness	p. 59
Order Disorder: Dysregulated Actions	p. 63
Summary: Elementary Mind	p. 69
Integral Mind	p. 72
Off-Track Vetting: Disrupted Attention	p. 75
Forget-Me-Not, Not: Faulty Memory	p. 78
Stark, Craving Mad: Bad Habits	p. 85
Executive Bummery: Value Misjudgment	p. 92
You Can't Always Want What You Get: Emotional Miscue	p. 98
Displeasure Principle: Displaced Desire	p. 103
Fear Factory: Hyperactive Alarm	p. 108
Summary: Integral Mind	p. 116
Synthetic Mind	p. 120
Leaning Disability: Unbalanced Bias	p. 127
Veer Goggles: Personality Non Grata	p. 132
Cardinal Knowledge: Beyond Belief	p. 136
No Thyself: Misshapen Identity	p. 142
Quid Pro Woe: Cooperative Contretemps	p. 147
Piece of Mind: Communication Breakdown	p. 154
Social Insecurity: Disaffiliation	p. 158
Complain Speaking: Help-Seeking Misbehavior	p. 163
Summary: Synthetic Mind	p. 168
Psychiatric Mind	p. 173
Psychiatry Rebuilt	p. 174
Mending Mentation	p. 182
Summary: Psychiatric Mind	p. 195
The Official Version: A Guided Tour of the DSM	p. 201
The Novice's Guide to Psychiatric Assessment	p. 227
Glossary	p. 273
References	p. 289
Additional Reading	p. 311
Index	p. 313
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