Philosophy of psychiatry / Jonathan Y. Tsou.
Tsou, Jonathan Y.| Call Number | 616.89001 |
| Author | Tsou, Jonathan Y., author. |
| Title | Philosophy of psychiatry / Jonathan Y. Tsou. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (77 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of science, 2517-7273 |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jun 2021). |
| Summary | Jonathan Y. Tsou examines and defends positions on central issues in philosophy of psychiatry. The positions defended assume a naturalistic and realist perspective and are framed against skeptical perspectives on biological psychiatry. Issues addressed include the reality of mental disorders; mechanistic and disease explanations of abnormal behavior; definitions of mental disorder; natural and artificial kinds in psychiatry; biological essentialism and the projectability of psychiatric categories; looping effects and the stability of mental disorders; psychiatric classification; and the validity of the DSM's diagnostic categories. The main argument defended by Tsou is that genuine mental disorders are biological kinds with harmful effects. This argument opposes the dogma that mental disorders are necessarily diseases (or pathological conditions) that result from biological dysfunction. Tsou contends that the broader ideal of biological kinds offers a more promising and empirically ascertainable naturalistic standard for assessing the reality of mental disorders and the validity of psychiatric categories. |
| Subject | Psychiatry Philosophy. |
| Multimedia |
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| Summary | Jonathan Y. Tsou examines and defends positions on central issues in philosophy of psychiatry. The positions defended assume a naturalistic and realist perspective and are framed against skeptical perspectives on biological psychiatry. Issues addressed include the reality of mental disorders; mechanistic and disease explanations of abnormal behavior; definitions of mental disorder; natural and artificial kinds in psychiatry; biological essentialism and the projectability of psychiatric categories; looping effects and the stability of mental disorders; psychiatric classification; and the validity of the DSM's diagnostic categories. The main argument defended by Tsou is that genuine mental disorders are biological kinds with harmful effects. This argument opposes the dogma that mental disorders are necessarily diseases (or pathological conditions) that result from biological dysfunction. Tsou contends that the broader ideal of biological kinds offers a more promising and empirically ascertainable naturalistic standard for assessing the reality of mental disorders and the validity of psychiatric categories. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jun 2021). |
| Subject | Psychiatry Philosophy. |
| Multimedia |