The concepts of psychiatry :a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness
General Material Designation
[book]
First Statement of Responsibility
/S. Nassir Ghaemi
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Baltimore
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2003
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxvi, 337 p. ;23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 v