Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
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- Paperback
422 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2012
Summary
An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.
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 mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262517447 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262517442 |
| Author: | Dominic Murphy |
| Publisher: | Bradford Book |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 422 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 562g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 146mm x 221mm |
| Series: | Philosophical Psychopathology |
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“A welcome introduction to topics at the interface of philosophy and psychiatry, including provocative arguments for a causal classification of psychiatric disorders.”–Kenneth F. Schaffner, University Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
About The Author
Dominic Murphy
Dominic Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
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