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Title Philosophical issues in psychiatry : explanation, phenomenology, and nosology / edited by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas
Edition Johns Hopkins paperback edition
Published Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations
Contents Explaining complex behavior / Sandra D. Mitchell -- Etiological models in psychiatry : reductive and nonreductive approaches / Kenneth F. Schaffner -- Levels of explanation in psychiatry / Dominic Murphy -- Cause and explanation in psychiatry : an interventionist perspective / James F. Woodward -- Causation in psychiatry / John Campbell -- Varieties of "phenomenology" : on description, understanding, and explanation in psychiatry / Josef Parnas and Louis A. Sass -- Self-agency and mental causality / Shaun Gallagher -- Real kinds but no true taxonomy : an essay in psychiatric systematics / Peter Zachar -- The incredible insecurity of psychiatric nosology / Kenneth S. Kendler and Peter Zachar
Summary "This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry - explanation, phenomenology, and nosology - and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
Phenomenological psychology.
Psychiatry -- Classification
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Psychiatry
Philosophy, Medical
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Medicine -- Philosophy
Phenomenological psychology
Psychiatry
Psychiatry -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Classification
Form Electronic book
Author Kendler, Kenneth S., 1950- editor.
Parnas, Josef, editor.
ISBN 9781421419121
1421419122