The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry / edited by K.W.M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard G.T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity values, and volition. The 'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry' offers a comprehensive reference resource for this area, suitable for both students and researchers in this field.

Cover; Contents; Contributors; 1 The Next Hundred Years: Watching our Ps and Q; SECTION I: HISTORY; 2 Introduction: History; 3 The Insanity Defense as a History of Mental Disorder; 4 Mental Health as Moral Virtue: Some Ancient Arguments; 5 Aristotle, Plato, and the Anti-Psychiatrists: Comment on Irwin; 6 Wilhelm Griesinger: Philosophy as the Origin of a New Psychiatry; 7 The Philosophical Roots of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology; 8 From Madness to Mental Illness: Psychiatry and Biopolitics in Michel Foucault; 9 The Epistemological Value of Depression Memoirs: A Meta-Analysis.

SECTION II: CONTEXTS OF CARE10 Introduction: Contexts of Care; 11 Challenges to the Modernist Identity of Psychiatry: User Empowerment and Recovery; 12 Race and Gender in Philosophy of Psychiatry: Science, Relativism, and Phenomenology; 13 Why Psychiatry Should Fear Medicalization; 14 Technology and Psychiatry; 15 Cure and Recovery; SECTION III: ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS; 16 Introduction: Establishing Relationships; 17 Varieties of Self-Awareness; 18 Interpersonal Relating; 19 Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology; 20 Other Minds, Autism, and Depth in Human Interaction.

21 Empathic Foundations of Clinical Knowledge22 Discourse and Diseases of the Psyche; 23 Philosophical Resources for the Psychiatric Interview; SECTION IV: SUMMONING CONCEPTS; 24 Introduction: Summoning Concepts; 25 Naturalist Accounts of Mental Disorder; 26 Values-Based Practice: Topsy-Turvy Take-Home Messages from Ordinary Language Philosophy (and a Few Next Steps); 27 Cognitive Science and Explanations of Psychopathology; 28 What is Mental Illness?; 29 Vice and Mental Disorders; 30 Rationality and Sanity: The Role of Rationality Judgments in Understanding Psychiatric Disorders.

31 Boundary Problems: Negotiating the Challenges of Responsibility and Loss32 Ordering Disorder: Mental Disorder, Brain Disorder, and Therapeutic Intervention; 33 Mental Disorder: Can Merleau-Ponty Take Us Beyond the "Mind-Brain" Problem?; SECTION V: DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; 34 Introduction: Descriptive Psychopathology; 35 Anxiety and Phobias: Phenomenologies, Concepts, Explanations; 36 Depression and the Phenomenology of Free Will; 37 Body Image Disorders; 38 The Phenomenology of Affectivity; 39 Delusion: The Phenomenological Approach.

40 Thought Insertion, Self-Awareness, and Rationality41 The Disunity of Consciousness in Psychiatric Disorders; 42 Delusion: Cognitive Approaches-Bayesian Inference and Compartmentalization; SECTION VI: ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES; 43 Introduction: Assessment and Diagnostic Categories; 44 Mapping the Domain of Mental Illness; 45 Values in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification; 46 Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis; 47 Understanding Mania and Depression; 48 Autism and the Philosophy of Mind.

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