Metaphysics of psychopathology
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TextSeries: Philosophical psychopathologyPublication details: London MIT 2014Description: xi, 274 p. illustrations 24 cmISBN: - 9780262027045
- 616.89 23 ZA-M
- RC435 .Z33 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: psychiatry, science wars, 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 thinking philosophically about philosophical concepts.
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