Addiction and Weakness of Will
Lubomira Radoilska
This thought-provoking resource presents an original philosophical analysis bringing together addiction and weakness of will. The author develops an integrated account of these two ...
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Alternative Perspectives on Psychiatric Validation: DSM, IDC, RDoC, and Beyond
Peter Zachar, Drozdstoj St. Stoyanov, Massimiliano Aragona, and Assen Jablensky (eds)
Many of the current debates about validity in psychiatry and psychology are predicated on the unexpected failure to validate commonly used diagnostic categories. The recognition of this ...
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Autonomy and Mental Disorder
Lubomira Radoilska (ed.)
Autonomy and Mental Disorder explores the nature and value of autonomy with reference to mental disorder, reflects on instances of mental disorder where autonomy is apparently compromised, ...
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Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds: Treating the whole person in psychiatry
Eric Matthews
How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This resource seeks to answer such questions by going to their ...
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Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
Lisa Bortolotti
This resource is an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of delusions that brings together the psychological literature on the aetiology and the behavioural manifestations of ...
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Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw, and Steven R Sabat (eds)
This resource brings together philosophers and psychiatrists to explore the conceptual issues raised by this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers, the authors ...
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Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Philosophical Perspectives
Christian Perring and Lloyd Wells (eds)
This resource is the first in the IPPP series to explore this highly complex topic. Though many of the ethical issues important in adult mental health are of relevance in the child, there ...
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Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice
Andy Lock and Tom Strong (eds)
Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice presents an overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of their conceptual underpinnings.
Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The psychopathology of common sense
Giovanni Stanghellini
This resource was created to help practitioners better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses, and using self-descriptions, its emphasis is ...
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Emotions and Personhood: Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability
Giovanni Stanghellini and René Rosfort
Emotions and Personhood provides a framework for understanding the relationship between emotion and human experience, and attempts to understand human emotions from the combined approach of ...
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Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry
Guy Widdershoven, John McMillan, Tony Hope, and Lieke van der Scheer (eds)
Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry demonstrates how ethics can engage more closely with the reality of psychiatric practice and shows how empirical methodologies from the social sciences can ...
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Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry
Tim Thornton
This resource 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, ...
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Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality
Matthew Ratcliffe
This resource is the first philosophical account of the nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric illness and in everyday life, including feelings of familiarity, ...
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Free Will and Responsibility: A guide for practitioners
John S. Callender
This resource explores the evolution of morality and the roles of reason and emotion in the making of moral judgments. It describes scientific research on volitional behaviour, moral ...
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The Healing Virtues: Character Ethics in Psychotherapy
Duff R. Waring
This book explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics with an emphasis on the patient’s work in a healing project. This common ground between the therapeutic process and ...
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Is Evidence-based Psychiatry Ethical?
Mona Gupta
Rated as one of the top 15 breakthroughs in medicine over the last 150 years, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become highly influential in medicine, and promotes the seemingly irrefutable ...
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Maladapting Minds: Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Theory
Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block (eds)
Written by both world-class philosophers, psychologists and evolutionary psychiatrists, this resource illustrates that many debates in contemporary philosophy of psychiatry are profoundly ...
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Mapping the Edges and the In-between: A critical analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder
Nancy Nyquist Potter
This resource presents a compelling analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), arguing that it needs to be approached in a new light- one that will benefit patients.
The Metaphor of Mental Illness
Neil Pickering
The Metaphor of Mental Illness is a revaluation of the traditional philosophical disputes about the existence and nature of mental illness. It puts forward a new view of mental illness and ...
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The Mind and its Discontents (2 ed.)
Grant Gillett
This resource is a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness, looking beyond just biological models of mental pathologies.
