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