A series aimed at publishing interdisciplinary work which is broadly concerned with psychopathology and which has significance for conceptual, methodological, scientific, ethical, and social issues related to contemporary mental health practices, as well as significance for more traditional philosophical debates, such as the nature of mind, rationality, agency, and responsibility.
Edited by Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline A. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780262549592
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
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.
Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World
by Matthew Ratcliffe
ISBN: 9780262036719
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 22, 2017
A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.
A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy.
An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis.
Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate—to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth. A stroke victim, for example,...
The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works—how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims...
