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" A metaphysics of psychopathology / "
Peter Zachar
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BL
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654261
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Zachar, Peter
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A metaphysics of psychopathology /\ Peter Zachar
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| Series Statement
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Philosophical psychopathology
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xi, 274 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780262027045
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: 0262027046
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: science wars, psychiatry, and the problem of realism -- A scientifically-inspired pragmatism -- Instrumental nominalism -- Psychological and scientific essentialism -- Misplaced literalism -- Literalism and the distrust of authority -- The objective within, not beyond, experience -- Classification and the concept of psychiatric disorder -- Four conceptual abstractions: natural kind, historical concept, normative concept and practical kind -- Can grief really be a disorder? -- Is narcissistic personality disorder real? -- Psychiatry, progress, and metaphysics
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Psychology, Pathological
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Metaphysics
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Mental Disorders-- psychology
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Metaphysics
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Psychopathology
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| Dewey Classification
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616.89
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RC435.Z33 2014
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2014 E-981
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WM 140
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