The philosophical defence of psychiatry [electronic resource] / Lawrie Reznek.
Psychiatry is plagued with philosophical questions. What is mental illness? Is it different from a brain disease? Is there any objective way of determining whether behaviors such as criminal activity are mental illnesses? Should we explain "abnormal" behavior by reference to psychological...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1991.
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| Series: | Philosophical issues in science.
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Table of Contents:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: PSYCHIATRY IN CRISIS; 1 THE MEDICAL PARADIGM; 2 SIGMUND FREUD AND THE PATHOLOGIZING OF NORMALITY; 3 HANS EYSENCK AND THE NORMALIZING OF NEUROSIS; 4 RONALD LAING AND THE RATIONALIZING OF MADNESS; 5 THOMAS SZASZ AND THE PHYSICALIZING OF DISEASE; 6 PETER SEDGWICK AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ILLNESS; 7 THOMAS SCHEFF AND THE LABELLING OF DEVIANCE; 8 MICHEL FOUCAULT AND THE CIVILIZING OF MADNESS; 9 PARADIGMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS; 10 THE NATURE OF MENTAL ILLNESS; 11 IS PSYCHIATRY A SCIENCE?