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Mental Patient

Mental Patient

Mental Patient

Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient's Perspective

by Abigail Gosselin

ISBN: 9780262544313

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 13, 2022

A philosopher who has experienced psychosis argues that recovery requires regaining agency and autonomy within a therapeutic relationship based on mutual trust.
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.
Break On Through

Break On Through

Break On Through

Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

by Lucas Richert

ISBN: 9780262539579

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 8, 2020

“Antipsychiatry,” Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s.
A Philosophy of Madness

A Philosophy of Madness

A Philosophy of Madness

The Experience of Psychotic Thinking

by Wouter Kusters

Translated by Nancy Forest-Flier

ISBN: 9780262044288

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 1, 2020

The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness.
Youth Mental Health

Youth Mental Health

Youth Mental Health

A Paradigm for Prevention and Early Intervention

Edited by Peter J. Uhlhaas and Stephen J. Wood

ISBN: 9780262043977

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 28, 2020

Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders.
Portraits of Resilience

Portraits of Resilience

Portraits of Resilience

by Daniel Jackson

Foreword by David A. Karp

ISBN: 9780262036788

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 16, 2017

Photographs and stories of people who have coped with and overcome depression, anxiety, trauma, and other challenges.
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.
Measuring Happiness

Measuring Happiness

Measuring Happiness

The Economics of Well-Being

by Joachim Weimann, Andreas Knabe and Ronnie Schöb

ISBN: 9780262529761

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 2, 2016

An investigation of the happiness-prosperity connection and whether economists can measure well-being.
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