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International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
 
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How new is the new philosophy of psychiatry?
- Correspondence: Damiaan Denys d.denys@amc.nl
Department of Psychiatry, AMC, University of Amsterdam, PA.2-179, PO Box 75867, 1070 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.peh-med.com/content/2/1/22
| Received: | 8 October 2007 |
| Accepted: | 20 October 2007 |
| Published: | 20 October 2007 |
© 2007 Denys; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In their recent paper, Natalie Banner and Tim Thornton evaluate seven volumes of the Oxford University Press series “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry,” an international book series begun in 2003 focusing on the emerging interdisciplinary field at the interface of philosophy and psychiatry. According to Natalie Banner and Tim Thornton, the series represents a clear indication that the interdisciplinary field of philosophy of psychiatry has been flourishing lately. Philosophers and psychiatrists face a “new philosophy of psychiatry”. However, the optimism which the “new” philosophy of psychiatry celebrates is precisely the exiling of philosophy from the foundations of psychiatry. The 150 year old belief that psychopathology cannot do without philosophical reflection has virtually disappeared from common psychiatric education and daily clinical practice. Though the discipline of psychiatry is particularly suited to contributions from philosophy, the impact of philosophy on psychiatry nowadays remains limited. With some exceptions, philosophical papers are embedded in a philosophical context inscrutable to ordinary psychiatrists. Much current philosophical work is perceived by psychiatrists as negativistic. I would encourage the field of psychiatry to incorporate once again basic philosophical attitudes which render possible true dialogue with philosophy and enrich both disciplines. The views developed here should not discredit the value and importance of Natalie Banner and Tim Thornton’s paper and the excellent series “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry.” As Jaspers said “Everybody inclined to disregard philosophy will be overwhelmed by philosophy in an unperceived way”.
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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine considers articles on the philosophy of medicine and biology, and on ethical aspects of clinical practice and research.
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- James Giordano, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität & University of New Mexico
Founding Editors
- Michael Schwartz, University of Hawaii
- Dan Stein, University of Cape Town
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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2012, 7:3 (13 January 2012)The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis
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*Psychiatry* in the *Scientific* Image - The MIT Press
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In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone is said to have ...
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Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
Dominic Murphy
Dominic Murphy
Dominic Murphy
Dominic Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
| Preface | ix | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| The Concept of Mental Disorder | 19 | |
| Psychiatry and Folk Psychology | 47 | |
| The Medical Model and the Foundations of Psychiatric Explanation | 107 | |
| The Limits of Mechanistic Explanation in Psychiatry | 151 | |
| A More or Less Realist Theory of Validation as Causal Explanation | 201 | |
| Social Construction and Sociological Causation | 255 | |
| Evolutionary Explanations of Psychopathology | 281 | |
| Classification | 307 | |
| Classification in Psychiatry | 343 | |
| Bibliography | 373 | |
| Index | 407 | |
Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
Dominic Murphy
In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone is said to have a mental illness, what about it is mental? What makes it an illness? How might we explain and classify it? A system of psychiatric classification settles these questions by distinguishing the mental illnesses and showing how they stand in relation to one another. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by the project of explaining and classifying mental illness.
Murphy argues that the current literature on mental illness--exemplified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--is an impediment to research; it lacks a coherent concept of the mental and a satisfactory account of disorder, and yields too much authority to commonsense thought about the mind. He argues that the explanation of mental illness should meet the standards of good explanatory practice in the cognitive neurosciences, and that the classification of mental disorders should group symptoms into conditions based on the causal structure of the normal mind.
About the Author
Dominic Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
Dominic Murphy
In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone is said to have a mental illness, what about it is mental? What makes it an illness? How might we explain and classify it? A system of psychiatric classification settles these questions by distinguishing the mental illnesses and showing how they stand in relation to one another. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by the project of explaining and classifying mental illness.
Murphy argues that the current literature on mental illness--exemplified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--is an impediment to research; it lacks a coherent concept of the mental and a satisfactory account of disorder, and yields too much authority to commonsense thought about the mind. He argues that the explanation of mental illness should meet the standards of good explanatory practice in the cognitive neurosciences, and that the classification of mental disorders should group symptoms into conditions based on the causal structure of the normal mind.
About the Author
Dominic Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
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This series is aimed at publishing interdisciplinary work which is broadly concerned with psychopathology and which has significance for conceptual, methodological, scientific, ethical, and social issues related to contemporary mental health practices, as well as significance for more traditional philosophical debates, such as the nature of mind, rationality, agency, and responsibility. Thematic goals for the series include:
- Broadening the intellectual community engaged in the investigation of mental illness and mental health
- Engaging important controversies in an interdisciplinary context
- Presenting developments in basic science relevant to psychopathology and psychiatric practice
- Providing innovative models for psychopathology grounded in basic science
- Engaging issues concerning psychopathology, including cross cultural ones, with social and philosophical significance
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 | Psychiatry in the Scientific Image Dominic Murphy An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences. Paper / March 2012 Price $20.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | Addiction and Responsibility Edited by Jeffrey Poland and George Graham The intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical, legal, research, and clinical contexts. Cloth / June 2011 Price $40.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | The Ethical Treatment of Depression Autonomy Through Psychotherapy Paul Biegler A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy. Cloth / April 2011 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | Brain Fiction Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation William Hirstein The phenomenon of confabulation—the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true—and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature. Paper / September 2006 Price $21.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | Imagination and the Meaningful Brain Arnold H. Modell An exploration of the biology of meaning that integrates the role of subjective processes with current knowledge of brain/mind function. Paper / September 2006 Price $20.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | Psychiatry in the Scientific Image Dominic Murphy An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences. Cloth / July 2006 OUT OF PRINT | |
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 | Brain Fiction Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation William Hirstein The phenomenon of confabulation—the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true—and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature. Cloth / December 2004 OUT OF STOCK | |
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 | Imagination and Its Pathologies Edited by James Phillips and James Morley Essays on the relation between the imagination and psychopathology that retrieve imagination from the margins to place it once again at the center of psychiatric discourse. Cloth / June 2003 Price $48.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | Imagination and the Meaningful Brain Arnold H. Modell An exploration of the biology of meaning that integrates the role of subjective processes with current knowledge of brain/mind function. Cloth / March 2003 OUT OF PRINT | |
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 | When Self-Consciousness Breaks Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham An examination of verbal hallucinations and thought insertion as examples of "alienated self-consciousness." Paper / March 2003 Price $20.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | The Myth of Pain Valerie Gray Hardcastle Valerie Gray Hardcastle argues that both professional and lay definitions of pain are wrongheaded—with consequences for how pain and pain patients are treated, how psychological disorders are understood, and how clinicians define the mind/body relationship. Paper / September 2001 Price $23.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | When Self-Consciousness Breaks Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham An examination of verbal hallucinations and thought insertion as examples of "alienated self-consciousness." Cloth / June 2000 Price $50.00 | ADD TO CART | |
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 | The Myth of Pain Valerie Gray Hardcastle Cloth / November 1999 OUT OF PRINT | |
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 | Divided Minds and Successive Selves Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality Jennifer Radden Cloth / June 1996 Price $ | |
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