A metaphysics of psychopathology /
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 psychopatho...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London :
MIT Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Philosophical Psychopathology
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780262322270 0262322277 9781461958499 1461958490 130649110X 9781306491105 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027045.001.0001 |