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Mad by the Millions

Mad by the Millions

Mad by the Millions

Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization

by Harry Yi-Jui Wu

ISBN: 9780262045384

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 13, 2021

The World Health Organization's post–World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a “world psyche.”
Defining Mental Disorder

Defining Mental Disorder

Defining Mental Disorder

Jerome Wakefield and His Critics

Edited by Luc Faucher and Denis Forest

by Harold Kincaid, Peter Zachar, Dominic Murphy, Justin Garson, Philip Gerrans, Rachel Cooper, Steeves Demazeux, Leen De Vreese, Maël Lemoine, Tim Thornton, Andreas De Block and Jonathan Sholl

ISBN: 9780262045643

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 16, 2021

Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as “harmful dysfunction,” with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.
Computational Psychiatry

Computational Psychiatry

Computational Psychiatry

A Primer

Edited by Peggy Seriès

ISBN: 9780262044592

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 24, 2020

The first introductory textbook in the emerging, fast-developing field of computational psychiatry.
A New Understanding of Mental Disorders

A New Understanding of Mental Disorders

A New Understanding of Mental Disorders

Computational Models for Dimensional Psychiatry

by Andreas Heinz

ISBN: 9780262036894

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 6, 2017

A new computational and dimensional approach to understanding and classifying mental disorders: modeling key learning and decision-making mechanisms across different mental disorders.
Translational Neuroscience

Translational Neuroscience

Translational Neuroscience

Toward New Therapies

Edited by Karoly Nikolich and Steven E. Hyman

ISBN: 9780262029865

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 21, 2015

Experts from academia and industry discuss how to create a new, more effective translational neuroscience drawing on novel technology and recent discoveries.
A Metaphysics of Psychopathology

A Metaphysics of Psychopathology

A Metaphysics of Psychopathology

by Peter Zachar

ISBN: 9780262027045

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 28, 2014

An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis.
Healing Psychiatry

Healing Psychiatry

Healing Psychiatry

Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide

by David H Brendel

ISBN: 9780262513258

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 21, 2009

A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.
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