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" The concepts of psychiatry : "
S. Nassir Ghaemi
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BL
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635060
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Ghaemi, S. Nassir
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The concepts of psychiatry : : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness /\ S. Nassir Ghaemi
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2003
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xxvi, 337 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0801873770 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Psychiatry
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Psychiatry-- Philosophy
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RC437.5.G47 2003
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RC437.5.G47 2003
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