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International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry - Medicine & Health Series - Series - Academic, Professional, & General - Oxford University Press

International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry - Medicine & Health Series - Series - Academic, Professional, & General - Oxford University Press


International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
About this Series Series Editors
International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry is an international book series focusing on the emerging interdisciplinary field at the interface of philosophy and psychiatry.

Volumes in the series will continue the broad theme of 'nature' (for causes/explanations) and 'narrative' (for meanings/understandings), building links between the sciences and humanities in psychiatry, but focusing on more narrowly defined topics.

How to contribute to the series:

The series editors welcome suggestions for new books in the series. Contact any of them with a draft preface, a content listing with descriptions of chapter coverage, a definition of specific target readership groups, notes on related or competing publications, and CVs of the editor(s)/author(s).
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Philosophical and Related Perspectives
Abraham Rudnick
978-0-19-969131-9
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September 2012 (estimated)
£44.99
Autonomy and Mental Disorder
Lubomira Radoilska
978-0-19-959542-6
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19 April 2012
£39.99
Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry II
Nosology
Kenneth S. Kendler, Josef Parnas
978-0-19-964220-5
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19 April 2012
£39.95
Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice
Andy Lock, Tom Strong
978-0-19-959275-3
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05 April 2012
£39.95
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry
Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory
Angela Woods
978-0-19-958395-9
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25 August 2011
£34.99
Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man
The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960.
Allan Beveridge
978-0-19-958357-7
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25 August 2011
£39.99
Maladapting Minds
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Theory
Pieter R. Adriaens, Andreas De Block
978-0-19-955866-7
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10 March 2011
£37.99
Thinking Through Dementia
Julian C. Hughes
978-0-19-957066-9
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17 February 2011
£34.99
Responsibility and psychopathy
Interfacing law, psychiatry and philosophy
Luca Malatesti, John McMillan
978-0-19-955163-7
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19 August 2010
£34.99
Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis
Linda Brakel
978-0-19-958147-4
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17 June 2010
£34.99
Free will and responsibility
A guide for practitioners
John S. Callender
978-0-19-954555-1
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29 April 2010
£39.99
The Virtuous Psychiatrist
Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice
Jennifer Radden, John Sadler
978-0-19-538937-1
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28 January 2010
£32.50
Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
Lisa Bortolotti
978-0-19-920616-2
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12 November 2009
£39.99
Mapping the Edges and the In-between
A critical analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder
Nancy Nyquist Potter
978-0-19-853021-3
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25 June 2009
£39.99
Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience
Philosophical perspectives
Matthew Broome, Lisa Bortolotti
978-0-19-923803-3
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14 May 2009
£39.99
The Mind and its Discontents
Second Edition
Grant Gillett
978-0-19-923754-8
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30 April 2009
£39.99
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the A-rational Mind
Linda A W Brakel
978-0-19-955125-5
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12 February 2009
£39.99
Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry
James Phillips
978-0-19-920742-8
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23 October 2008
£39.99
Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self
Paul Lysaker, John Lysaker
978-0-19-921576-8
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14 August 2008
£39.99
Feelings of Being
Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality
Matthew Ratcliffe
978-0-19-920646-9
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26 June 2008
£39.99
Talking Cures and Placebo Effects
David A. Jopling
978-0-19-923950-4
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29 May 2008
£37.99
Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry
Guy Widdershoven, John McMillan...
978-0-19-929736-8
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14 February 2008
£37.99
What is Mental Disorder?
An essay in philosophy, science, and values
Derek Bolton
978-0-19-856592-5
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07 February 2008
£34.99
Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry
Tim Thornton
978-0-19-922871-3
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06 September 2007
£24.99
Rationality and Compulsion
Applying action theory to psychiatry
Lennart Nordenfelt
978-0-19-921485-3
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26 April 2007
£39.99
The Philosophy of Psychiatry
A Companion
Jennifer Radden
978-0-19-531327-7
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18 January 2007
£27.50
Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds
Treating the 'whole' person in psychiatry
Eric Matthews
978-0-19-856643-4
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04 January 2007
£105.00
Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds
Treating the whole person in psychiatry
Eric Matthews
978-0-19-856644-1
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04 January 2007
£39.99
Reconceiving Schizophrenia
Man Cheung Chung, Bill Fulford...
978-0-19-852613-1
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23 November 2006
£39.99
Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation
Healing damaged relationships
Nancy Potter
978-0-19-856942-8
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24 August 2006
£95.00
Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation
Healing damaged relationships
Nancy Potter
978-0-19-856943-5
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24 August 2006
£39.99
Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Bill Fulford, Tim Thornton...
978-0-19-852695-7
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13 July 2006
£90.00
Postpsychiatry
Mental health in a postmodern world
Patrick Bracken, Philip Thomas
978-0-19-852609-4
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22 December 2005
£39.99
The Metaphor of Mental Illness
Neil Pickering
978-0-19-853088-6
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08 December 2005
£39.99
Dementia
Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw...
978-0-19-856614-4
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08 December 2005
£95.00
Dementia
Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw...
978-0-19-856615-1
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08 December 2005
£39.99
Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
John Z. Sadler
978-0-19-852637-7
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28 October 2004
£44.99
Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies
The psychopathology of common sense
Giovanni Stanghellini
978-0-19-852089-4
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09 September 2004
£39.99
Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder
The nature of causal explanation in psychology and psychiatry
Second Edition
Derek Bolton, Jonathan Hill
978-0-19-851560-9
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25 March 2004
£39.99
Nature and Narrative
An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry
Bill Fulford, Katherine Morris...
978-0-19-852611-7
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15 May 2003
£39.99
 
 

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry) by John Z. Sadler

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry) by John Z. Sadler

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Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry)

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As one who has little formal training in philosophy, but who has been practicing philosophy without a license (as do, surely, many respected colleagues who resort to the DSM codes primarily for reimbursement), I celebrate the birth of this book and wish it well. People in the field are all amateur philosophers, and they can use some professional help. The book would serve for a semester course in the last year of college and in graduate school. Every psychiatric residency and clinical psychology program should devote at least an annual grand rounds or case conference to this work. It should be required reading for anyone who has anything to do with the current use and the future development of the DSM. (PsycCRITIQUES, Vol 50, No 15 )
This is a well written and rigorous examination of values and their effects on psychiatric diagnosis. It is complex and not intended for the casual reader. The author does an excellent job of explaining the philosophical language that he applies throughout the book and breaking down societal values into their core elements. His insights are provocative and compelling. He demonstrates the richness that can be psychiatry and suggests methods of improving both clinical practice and theory in light of the value judgements that are a part of classifying mental illness. (Doody's Journal )
John Sadler mounts a persuasive argument that values, usually seen as subjective (and therefore fallable), are impossible to separate from those concepts, even "facts", we consider objective . . . The bulk of his discussion concerns the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the ontological assumptions - as Sadler puts it, "assumptions about the way things are" - that underlie its efforts. He offers us what he calls "an alternative path", to better enable diagnosticians in understanding their own cultural assumptions and biases. This is no abstract exercise, especially now, when, as Sadler notes, "the term 'values' is often used to shore up all sorts of political agendas, social reform intentions, and voter turnout". It's a bracing approach, challenging to all struggling to reconcile the needs of clinical practice with the unsettling fear that categorisations of any sort merely serve the collective interest. (The Lancet )

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The public, mental health consumers, as well as mental health practitioners wonder about what kinds of values mental health professionals hold, and what kinds of values influence psychiatric diagnosis. Are mental disorders socio-political, practical, or scientific concepts? Is psychiatric diagnosis value-neutral? What role does the fundamental philosophical question "How should I live?" play in mental health care? In his carefully nuanced and exhaustively referenced monograph, psychiatrist and philosopher of psychiatry John Z. Sadler describes the manifold kinds of values and value judgements involved in psychiatric diagnosis and classification systems like the DSM. Professor Sadler takes the reader on a fascinating conceptual tour of the inner workings of psychiatric diagnosis, considering the role of science, culture, sexuality, politics, gender, technology, human nature, patienthood, and professions in building his vision of a more humane psychiatric diagnostic process.
 

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The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who openly boasted of killing 77 people, seemed to redefine the banality of evil, recast for our time into images of the mundane.


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From political schemer to prison reformer: The life of Chuck Colson remembered
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By (ARA) In 1974 the Watergate scandal sent Chuck Colson, White House special counsel and self-described "hatchet man," to federal prison. After experiencing a conversion to evangelical Christianity - a metamorphosis so improbable he later joked that ...
Religion: Why Colson spent Easter in prisonsThe Republic
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He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed." This isn't the sermon that many believers hear on Easter, but it's the one that prisoners need to hear, said Chuck Colson back in 1992, ...
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Chuck Colson fought for the forgotten
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Anders Breivik's World: How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer? - SPIEGEL ONLINE

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Anders Breivik's World

How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer?

Photo Gallery: How Sick is Anders Behring Breivik?
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Seventy-seven people died in the attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utøya last July. The central question in the trial of the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, is whether or not he is criminally liable. There is much to suggest that he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
Can a delusional person be punished for their crimes?