The concepts of psychiatry a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / S. Nassir Ghaemi.

Author/creator Ghaemi, S. Nassir
Format Electronic
EditionJohn Hopkins pbks. ed.
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxxviii, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008273396
ISBN9780801886300
ISBN0801886309 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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