Published February, 2019
By Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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Developments in mental health activism pose a radical challenge to psychiatric and societal understandings of madness. Mad Pride and mad-positive activism reject the language of mental 'illness' and 'disorder' and demand recognition of madness as grounds for identity. This book examines and responds to the claims and demands of Mad activism.

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Published February, 2019
By James L. Knoll IV, C.V. Haldipur and Eric v.d. Luft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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Thomas Szasz wrote over thirty books and several hundred articles, replete with mordant criticism of psychiatry. His works made him arguably one of the world's most recognized psychiatrists, albeit one of the most controversial. This book critically examines the legacy of a man who challenged the very concept of mental illness.

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Published December, 2018
By Walter Glannon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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Advances in psychiatric research and clinical psychiatry in the last 30 years have given rise to new questions that lie at the intersection of psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy and law. Bringing these topics together for the first time, this book explores the medical and philosophical implications of neuroscience in the mental health field.

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Published August, 2017
By Louis A Sass and Louis Sass
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of these disorders. Sass argues that many aspects of this group of disorders can actually involve more sophisticated (albeit dysfunctional) forms of mind and experience.

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Published March, 2017
By Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the questions of nosology. This book reviews issues within psychiatric nosology from clinical, historical and particularly philosophical perspectives. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished authors.

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Published November, 2016
By and Giovanni Stanghellini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and centre. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue of the soul with oneself and with others

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Published November, 2016
By Geert Keil, Lara Keuck and Rico Hauswald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases are notoriously contentious.

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Published July, 2016
By Nancy Nyquist Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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This book offers a nuanced and complex look at defiance, taking seriously issues of dysfunction while also attending to the social contexts in which defiant behaviour may arise. Case studies, a framework for differentiating different forms of defiance, and a realistic picture of phronesis (practical reasoning) are all covered.

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Published January, 2016
By Duff R. Waring and Duff Waring
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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The Healing Virtues explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics - with an emphasis on the patient's role within a healing process. It considers how the common ground between the therapeutic process and the cultivation of virtues can inform the efforts of both therapist and patient.

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Published January, 2007
By Jennifer Radden
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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This Companion is a comprehensive resource of new essays by leading thinkers on the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors define the field and highlight the philosophical assumptions that underlie psychiatric theory and practice.

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