TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zachar,Peter
TI  - Metaphysics of psychopathology 
T2  - Philosophical psychopathology
SN  - 9780262027045 
AV  - RC435 .Z33 2014
U1  - 616.89 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - MIT
KW  - Psychology, Pathological
KW  - Metaphysics
N1  - 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
ER  -