Essential philosophy of psychiatry / Tim Thornton.
"Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and to...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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Table of Contents:
- Anti-psychiatry, values and the philosophy of psychiatry
- Values, psychiatric ethics and clinical judgement
- Understanding psychopathology
- Theorising about meaning for mental health care
- The validity of psychiatric classification
- The relation of evidence-based medicine and tacit knowledge in clinical judgement.