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" The concepts of psychiatry : "
S. Nassir Ghaemi.
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BL
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955194
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b709564
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| Main Entry
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Ghaemi, S. Nassir.
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| Title & Author
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The concepts of psychiatry : : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness /\ S. Nassir Ghaemi.
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John Hopkins pbks. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xxviii, 337 pages) :: illustrations
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0801881374
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: 9780801881374
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0801886309
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9780801886300
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| Notes
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OldControl:muse9780801881374.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 Islamic approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? -- Order out of chaos: from insanity to DSM-III to a pluralistic 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 -- Calvinism or hedonism? -- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry -- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis -- Being there: existential psychotherapy -- Beyond eclecticism: teaching psychotherapy in the twenty-first century -- Bridging the biology/psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism -- Why it is hard to be pluralist.
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Psychiatry-- Philosophy.
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Psychiatry.
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Psychiatry-- Philosophy.
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Psychiatry.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.89
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RC437.5.G47 2007
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