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What is Mental Disorder? An essay in philosophy, science, and values
Taschenbuch von Derek Bolton
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
With a new edition of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis - the ICD and DSM - under development, it is timely to take a step back and evaluate how we diagnose and define mental disorder. This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder.
With a new edition of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis - the ICD and DSM - under development, it is timely to take a step back and evaluate how we diagnose and define mental disorder. This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder.
Über den Autor
Derek Bolton read philosophy at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate subsequently published as 'An Approach to Wittgenstein's Philosophy' in 1979. He subsequently trained in Clinical Psychology and has worked in the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London for many years. He is the author of many papers in clinical and scientific psychiatry, and on philosophical topics in psychiatry, and co-authored with Jonathan Hill 'Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder', published by Oxford University Press, 2e, 2004.
Zusammenfassung
Highly commended in the Mental Health Category of the BMA Book Awards 2009
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: The current diagnostic manuals: aims, methods, and questions

  • 2: The sciences on mental order/disorder and related concepts: normality, meaning, natural and social norms

  • 3: Mental disorder and human nature

  • 4: Clinical definition: distress, disability and the need to treat

  • 5: Boundaries and terminology in flux

  • 6: Some conclusions

Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780198565925
ISBN-10: 0198565925
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bolton, Derek
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Derek Bolton
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2008
Gewicht: 0,509 kg
Artikel-ID: 108625785
Über den Autor
Derek Bolton read philosophy at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate subsequently published as 'An Approach to Wittgenstein's Philosophy' in 1979. He subsequently trained in Clinical Psychology and has worked in the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London for many years. He is the author of many papers in clinical and scientific psychiatry, and on philosophical topics in psychiatry, and co-authored with Jonathan Hill 'Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder', published by Oxford University Press, 2e, 2004.
Zusammenfassung
Highly commended in the Mental Health Category of the BMA Book Awards 2009
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: The current diagnostic manuals: aims, methods, and questions

  • 2: The sciences on mental order/disorder and related concepts: normality, meaning, natural and social norms

  • 3: Mental disorder and human nature

  • 4: Clinical definition: distress, disability and the need to treat

  • 5: Boundaries and terminology in flux

  • 6: Some conclusions

Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780198565925
ISBN-10: 0198565925
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bolton, Derek
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Derek Bolton
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2008
Gewicht: 0,509 kg
Artikel-ID: 108625785
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