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Format: Häftad (Paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 336
Utgivningsdatum: 2008-02-01
Förlag: OUP Oxford
Illustrationer: 2 figures
Dimensioner: 234 x 155 x 20 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: 49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN: 9780198565925

What is Mental Disorder?

Name: What is Mental Disorder?
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Author: Derek Bolton
ISBN: 9780198565925

An essay in philosophy, science, and values

av Derek Bolton

Häftad, Engelska, 2008-02-01

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With a new edition of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis - the ICD and DSM - under development, it is timely to take a step back and evaluate how we diagnose and define mental disorder. This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder.

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Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder

Derek Bolton

This new edition of Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder addresses key issues in the philosophy of psychiatry, drawing on both philosophical and scientific theory. The main idea of the book is that causal models of mental disorders have to include m...

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The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease

Derek Bolton, Grant Gillett

This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in he...

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The Psychologist This book provides an excellent discussion and philosophical critique of the use of the term 'mental disorder'...this book will be useful to the inquiring mind that seeks to understand mental disorder from a wider perspective.

Derek Bolton read philosophy at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate subsequently published as 'An Approach to Wittgenstein's Philosophy' in 1979. He subsequently trained in Clinical Psychology and has worked in the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London for many years. He is the author of many papers in clinical and scientific psychiatry, and on philosophical topics in psychiatry, and co-authored with Jonathan Hill Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder, published by Oxford University Press, 2e, 2004.

1. The current diagnostic manuals: aims, methods, and questions; 2. The sciences on mental order/disorder and related concepts: normality, meaning, natural and social norms; 3. Mental disorder and human nature; 4. Clinical definition: distress, disability and the need to treat; 5. Boundaries and terminology in flux; 6. Some conclusions