Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry

Zusatztext An interesting look at how technology has changed the practice of psychiatry and psychology... it offers significant insight Informationen zum Autor James Phillips is in the private practice of psychiatry, with a focus on medically oriented psychotherapy, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine. He is Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and is editor of the AAPP Bulletin. He has written extensively in the area of philosophy and psychiatry and is on the editorial board of the journal,Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology. He is co-editor (with James Morley) of Imagination and its Pathologies (MIT Press, 2002. Since 2004 he has been involved in developing and supporting a psychiatric clinic in Ayacucho, Peru, a rural Andean city, and he travels there regularly. Klappentext Technology has had, and will continue to have, a major effect on the field of psychiatry - in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In a collection of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters, this book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made. Zusammenfassung Technology has had, and will continue to have, a major effect on the field of psychiatry - in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In a collection of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters, this book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made.

Summary

Technology has had, and will continue to have, a major effect on the field of psychiatry - in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In a collection of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters, this book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made.

Product details

• Authors: James Phillips, James (EDT) Phillips
• Assisted by: James Phillips (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2008
• EAN: 9780199207428
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920742-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry; International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry; International Perspectives in
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Bio-ethics