Published June, 2008
By Matthew Ratcliffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Feelings of Being is the first philosophical account of the nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. These include feelings of familiarity, unfamiliarity, estrangement, isolation, emptiness, belonging, etc. It will be valuable for all philosophers and psychiatrists interested in emotion.

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Published May, 2008
By David A. Jopling and David Jopling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have had to defend themselves from a barrage of criticisms throughout their history. In this book David Jopling argues that the changes achieved through therapy are really just functions of placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers. It is a bold new work that delivers yet another blow to Freud and his followers.

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Published February, 2008
By John McMillan, Tony Hope, Guy Widdershoven and Lieke van der Scheer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Psychiatry presents a unique array of difficult ethical questions. A major challenge is to approach psychiatry in a way that does justice to the real ethical issues. This book show how ethics can engage more closely with the reality of psychiatric practice and how empirical methodologies from the social sciences can help foster this link.

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Published February, 2008
By Derek Bolton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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With a new edition of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis - the ICD and DSM - under development, it is timely to take a step back and evaluate how we diagnose and define mental disorder. This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder.

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Published September, 2007
By Tim Thornton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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This book is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into the three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and tools needed to assess those debates.

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Published April, 2007
By Lennart Nordenfelt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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This book presents a unique examination of mental illness. Though common to many mental disorders, delusions result in actions that, though perhaps rational to the individual, might seem entirely inappropriate or harmful to others. This book shows how we may better understand delusion by examining the nature of compulsion.

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Published January, 2007
By Eric Matthews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine.

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Published January, 2007
By Eric Matthews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine.

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Published November, 2006
By Man Cheung Chung, Bill Fulford, George Graham and Man Chung
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives. This book is unique in examining it from a philosophical point of view. It should appeal to every reader who wants to better understand this major mental illness, providing unique insights into the 'experience' of schizophrenia.

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Published August, 2006
By Nancy Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. This book looks at how people, communities, and nations can address great wrongs and how they can heal from them - taking into consideration how differences in cultures, histories, and group expectations affect the possibilities for healing.

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