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<p><p>this Is A Comprehensive Resource Of Original Essays By Leading Thinkers Exploring The Newly Emerging Inter-disciplinary Field Of The Philosophy Of Psychiatry. The Contributors Aim To Define This Exciting Field And To Highlight The Philosophical Assumptions And Issues That Underlie Psychiatric Theory And Practice, The Category Of Mental Disorder, And Rationales For Its Social, Clinical And Legal Treatment. <p>as A Branch Of Medicine And A Healing Practice, Psychiatry Relies On Presuppositions That Are Deeply And Unavoidably Philosophical. Conceptions Of Rationality, Personhood And Autonomy Frame Our Understanding And Treatment Of Mental Disorder. Philosophical Questions Of Evidence, Reality, Truth, Science, And Values Give Meaning To Each Of The Social Institutions And Practices Concerned With Mental Health Care. The Psyche, The Mind And Its Relation To The Body, Subjectivity And Consciousness, Personal Identity And Character, Thought, Will, Memory, And Emotions Are Equally The Stuff Of Traditional Philosophical Inquiry And Of The Psychiatric Enterprise. A New Research Field&#151;the Philosophy Of Psychiatry&#151;began To Form During The Last Two Decades Of The Twentieth Centu

Author

Jennifer Radden; Oxford University Press

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199882076

Subjects

Medical, Philosophy, Psychology