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Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry (Paperback)
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Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry (Paperback)
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry is a concise introduction to the
growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into 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,
in six chapters.
In addition to outlining the state of play, Essential Philosophy
of Psychiatry presents a coherent and unified approach across the
different debates, characterized by a rejection of reductionism and
an emphasis on the ineliminability of uncodified skilled
judgement.
The first part, Values, outlines the debate about whether
diagnosis of mental illness is essentially value-laden and argues
that the prospects for reducing illness or disease to plainly
factual matters are poor. It also explains the important role of
skilled contextual judgement, rather than a principles-based
deduction, in ethical judgement.
The second part, Meanings, examines the central role of
understanding and a shared first person perspective, both against
attempts to reduce meaning to basic information-processing
mechanisms and to explain away the difficulties of understanding
psychopathology in recent models of delusion.
The third part, Facts, shows the importance of uncodified clinical
judgements, both in assessing the validity of psychiatric taxonomy
and in the application of Evidence Based Medicine. Despite advances
in the codifaction of practice and operationalism of diagnosis, an
element of judgement remains in the assessment both of what, at one
level, is good evidence for diagnosis and treatment and what, at a
higher level, is good evidence for thevalidity of classification
overall.
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