A metaphysics of psychopathology

• Tác giả: Peter Zachar
• ISBN-10: 0262322277
• ISBN-10: 130649110X
• ISBN-10: 1461958490
• ISBN-13: 978-0262322270
• ISBN-13: 978-1306491105
• ISBN-13: 978-1461958499
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 616.89 Mental disorders
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (287 pages) : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 252634
• Chủ đề: 1. Metaphysics; 2. Psychology, Pathological

Tóm tắt

In this study Peter Zachar considers such terms as 'real' and 'reality' - invoked in psychiatry but often obscure and remote from their instances - as abstract philosophical concepts. He then examines the implications of his approach for psychiatric classification and psychopathology. Proposing what he calls a scientifically inspired pragmatism, Zachar considers such topics as the essentialist bias, diagnostic literalism, and the concepts of natural kind and social construct.