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Author:   Rene J. Muller (Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.860kg
ISBN:  

9781138308138

ISBN 10:   1138308137
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   26 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART I: WHERE PSYCHIATRY HAS BEEN, NEEDS TO GO, AND HOW TO GET THERE 1. Why Psychiatry Needs Another Way to Classify and Diagnose the Pathological Alterations in Mental Life 2. The Initial Promises of Biological Psychiatry Do Not Look So Promising Now 3. An Approach to Diagnosing Mental Illness Based on the Psychobiology of Adolf Meyer 4. To Understand, To Explain, to Know What Mental Illness Is 5. The Four Domains of Mental Illness PART II: CLASSIFIFYING AND DIAGNOSING MENTAL ILLNESS 6. The Anxiety Spectrum 7. The Depression Spectrum 8. The Dissociation Spectrum 9. The Psychosis Spectrum 10. Aberrant Personality Styles 11. Ceding Control over Alcohol, Drugs, Food, Sex, the Body’s Integument, Gambling and the Itch to Steal 12. Altered Mental States Induced by a Medical Condition or Medical Disease 13. Schizophrenia 14. Four Schizophrenic Patients, Four Different Schizophrenias 15. Diagnosing the Heterogeneous Illness/Disease Known as Schizophrenia 16. Manic-Depression 17. Using the FDMI: Diagnosis and Treatment of a Man With 2nd Domain Avoidant Personality Style, and 1st Domain Anxiety, Dysthymia and Pathological Anger Appendices: A-D A. Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenological Method, William James’s Pragmatism and the Question of Validity for the FDMI and the DSM-5 B. The Putative Subtypes of Schizophrenia C. Schizoaffective Disorder: An Improbable Phenomenon D. Identifying Mass Killers Before They Strike References Index

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One of the vexing `realities' of working in the mental health professions is trying to understand the complicated symptom profiles of actual persons in stark contrast to the clearly demarcated syndromes of the official classification systems. Inspired by great psychopathologists of the past-Jaspers, Meyer, and McHugh-Rene J. Muller wrestles with this contrast directly. He systematizes our prevailing classifications and offers an enlightening perspective on the interaction between personhood and psychiatric distress. Peter Zachar, PhD, professor of psychology, Auburn University Montgomery

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René J. Muller, PhD, is the author of Psych ER: Psychiatric Patients Come to the Emergency Room and Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession. He has been a regular contributor to Psychiatric Times, a peer reviewer for the annual U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress, and is a review editor for The Humanistic Psychologist. Dr. Muller has evaluated over 3,000 patients in the emergency rooms at Union Memorial Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He has a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and an MA from Duquesne University.

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