Awards

• Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2005.
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2005.

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Author:   Jennifer Radden (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   0.835kg
ISBN:  

9780195313277

ISBN 10:   0195313275
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   18 January 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I - Psychopathology and Normalcy 1: Grant Gillett: Cognition: Brain Pain: Psychotic Cognition, Hallucination and Delusions 2: Jennifer Hansen: Affectivity: Depression and Mania 3: Alan Soble: Desire: Paraphilias and Distress in DSM-IV 4: Louis Charland: Character: Moral Treatment and the Personality Disorders 5: Al Mele: Action: Volitional Disorder and Addiction 6: George Graham: Self-ascription: Though Insertion 7: Stephen Braude: Memory: The Nature and Significance of Dissociation 8: Shaun Gallagher and Mette Vaever: Body: Disorders of Embodiment 9: Jennifer Radden: Identity: Personal Identity, Character Identity and Mental Disorder 10: Christian Perring: Development: Disorders of Childhood and Youth Part 2 - Epistemology of Practice 11: Sadler: Diagnosis / Anti-Diagnosis 12: James Phillips: Understanding / Explanation 13: Tim Thornton: Reductionism / Anti-Reductionism 14: Bill Fulford: Facts / Values: Ten Principles of Values-based Medicine Part 3 - Norms, Values and Ethics 15: Nancy Potter: Gender 16: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat: Race and Culture 17: Charles Culver and Bernard Gert: Competence 18: Daniel Robinson: Dangerousness and the General Duty to All the World 19: Ruth Chadwick and Gordon Aindow: Treatment and Research Ethics 20: Simon Wilson and Gwen Adshead: Criminal Responsibility 21: Margaret Battin and Brooke Hopkins: Religion Part 4 - Theoretical Models 22: Dominic Murphy: Darwinian: Darwinian Models of Psychotherapy 23: Bettina Bergo: Psychoanalytic: Freud's Debt to Philosophy and his Copernican Revolution 24: Michael Schwartz and Osborne Wiggins: Phenomenological: Hermeneutics, Understanding and Interpretation in Psychiatry 25: Andrew Garner and Valerie Hardcastle: Neurobiological 26: Edward Erwin: Cognitive-Behavioral: Cognitive-behavior Therapy 27: Jennifer Church: Social Constructionist Part 5 - Circumscribing Mental Disorder 28: Rom Harre: Benchmarks for Psychiatric Concepts 29: Bernard Gert and Charles Culver: Defining Mental Disorder 30: Carl Elliot: Mental Health and Its Limits About the Authors Index

Reviews

The publication of this book is a major event in the ongoing development of the field...a significant accomplishment...it simultaneously represents, announces, and consolidates the arrival of an exciting new field. --Metapsychology Online Book Reviews<br> Highly recommended. --Choice<br>

<br> The publication of this book is a major event in the ongoing development of the field...a significant accomplishment...it simultaneously represents, announces, and consolidates the arrival of an exciting new field. --Metapsychology Online Book Reviews<p><br> Highly recommended. --Choice<p><br>

Author Information

Jennifer Radden received her doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University and is Professor and Chair in the Philosophy Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her published research is on moral and conceptual issues arising out of the theory and practice of psychiatry.

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