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Zusatztext ...a persuasive, well-argued, and original contribution to the field in its own right, and no mere primer...truly essential to all those who work, study and research in mental health, as well as those who suffer from mental illness, and their families and friends. Informationen zum Autor Tim Thornton completed his PhD on Wittgenstein and judgement in the History and Philosophy of Science Department of the University of Cambridge before becoming Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is now Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the newly established Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire. Klappentext This book is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into the three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and tools needed to assess those debates. Zusammenfassung This book is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into the three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and tools needed to assess those debates. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I - VALUES ; 1. Anti-psychiatry! values and the philosophy of psychiatry ; 1.1 The debate between 'values in' and values out' accounts of mental illness ; 1.2 Putting the debate into context ; 1.3 A biological teleological model of mental illness ; 1.4 Mild cognitive impairment: a case study in philosophy of psychiatry ; 2. Values! psychiatric ethics and clinical judgement ; 2.1 A toolkit for ethical reasoning in medicine and psychiatry? ; 2.2 Judgement and the broader framework of Values Based Practice ; 2.3 The role of judgement in the Four Principles approach to medical ethics ; PART II - MEANINGS ; 3. Understanding psychopathology ; 3.1 Jaasperes on the role of understanding in psychiatry ; 3.2 The attempt to understand psychopathology in recent philosophy of psychiatry ; 4. Theorising about meaning for mental health care ; 4.1 Cognitivism! the mind and inner states ; 4.2 The discursive turn! social constructionism and dementia ; 4.3 A Wittgensteinian account of meaning ; PART III - FACTS ; 5. The validity of psychiatric classification ; 5.1 Facts! values and psychiatric validity ; 5.2 Two complications for psychiatric classification ; 5.3 Lessons from the philosophy of science ; 6. The relation of Evidence Based Medicine and tacit knowledge in clinical judgement ; 6.1 The presence of Evidence Based Medicine in psychiatry ; 6.2 Hume's challenge to induction ; 6.3 Responses to Hume ; 6.4 The role of individual judgement in induction ...
