How Does the Psychiatrist Know?
On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning
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- Paperback
258 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
How do clinical psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions? Little attention has been directed to this question by philosophers of psychiatry. Adrian Kind presents a systematic, in-depth philosophical investigation into this question and argues that psychiatric diagnostic reasoning can be understood as a model-based reasoning procedure analogous to scientific model-based reasoning. To support this, he draws on ideas from the philosophy of science, psychiatry, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This study is an invaluable resource for practicing psychiatrists, philosophers interested in psychiatry, and researchers in artificial intelligence or cognitive science interested in medical cognition.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783837676747 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3837676749 |
| Author: | Adrian Kind |
| Publisher: | Transcript Verlag |
| Imprint: | Transcript Verlag |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 258 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 397g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 15mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Bioethics / Medical Ethics |
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Critics Review
»I see Kind’s book as my new go-to reference for psychiatric diagnostic reasoning […]. Any future conceptual work on this subject would build on or would have to seriously engage with Kind in one form or another.«
* Awais Aftab, , 05.04.2025 *»Kind’s book presents an intellectually rich account of psychiatric diagnostic reasoning from which both students and specialists might benefit. Through a well-structured and interdisciplinary approach, he successfully challenges simplistic views of psychiatric diagnosis, offering instead a model that integrates insights from epistemology, philosophy of science, and clinical practice.«
* Sanja Dembić, Philosphical Psychology, 05.11.2025 *Adrian Kind
Adrian Kind (Dr.) works as a postdoctoral researcher at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and is currently training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist. He received his doctorate through the partner project “Extrospection”, a collaboration between HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin and OttovonGuerickeUniversität Magdeburg. He holds Master’s degrees in philosophy (HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin) and psychology (Internationale Psychoanalytische Universität Berlin). His research focuses on epistemological and metaphysical questions in the philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of mind, philosophy of sports, and the philosophy of religion.
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