The Mind and Its Discontents

Zusatztext Overall a great achievement and a substantial contribution to the (ethically) right theorisation of psychiatry. Klappentext The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness, looking beyond just biological models of mental pathologies. In the ten years since, there has been growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever. Zusammenfassung The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness, looking beyond just biological models of mental pathologies. In the ten years since, there has been growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Mind, brain and psychiatry 2: Psychiatric categorization 3: The treatment of aliens 4: The depths of the self 5: Thought in disarray 6: The black dog and the muse 7: Fidgets 8: I and other robots 9: Moral insanity and evil 10: 'My name is Legion for we are many' 11: I eat therefore I am not 12: The meaning of hysteria 13: The good that I would do 14: Interrogating psychiatry and philosophy Appendices

Summary

The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness, looking beyond just biological models of mental pathologies. In the ten years since, there has been growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever.

Product details

• Authors: Grant Gillett, Grant (Dunedin Hospital and Otago Bioethics Centre Gillett, Grant R. Gillett
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2009
• EAN: 9780199237548
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923754-8
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry; International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry; International Perspectives in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Psychiatry, Abnormal psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism