Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry - Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solution - the Multitudinous Self Model (MuSe).

List of contents

Part I
Chapter 1: Mental Disorder and the Self
Chapter 2: Psychiatry and Science
­­Chapter 3: Epistemic and Ethical Costs of Neglecting the Self in Psychiatry
Part II
Chapter 4: The Multitudinous Self
Chapter 5: The Multitudinous Self Model, Mental Disorders
Chapter 6: The Multitudinous Self Model, Flourishing, and Science
Chapter 7: The Multitudinous Self Model and Substance Use Disorders

About the author

¿erife Tekin, PhD, is an associate professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. She coedited The Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2021), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy and Psychiatry (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research (MIT Press, 2017). Her articles appeared in Philosophy of Science; Synthese; American Journal of Bioethics, and elsewhere.

Product details

• Authors: Şerife Tekin, Serife (University of Texas At San Antonio Tekin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9780367518110
• ISBN: 978-0-367-51811-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Philosophy of Science, Addiction & therapy, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy, Mental Health Law