The concepts of psychiatry :a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness
[book]
/S. Nassir Ghaemi
Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, c2003
xxvi, 337 p. ;23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index
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 v