Understanding Mental Disorders by Daniel Lafleur, Christopher... - 9781138340831

Taylor & Francis

Understanding Mental DisordersA Philosophical Approach to the Medicine of the Mind\nAuthor(s): Daniel Lafleur, Christopher Mole, Holly Onclin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138340831, 978-1138340831\nSynopsis\nUnderstanding Mental Disorders aims to help current and future psychiatrists, and those who work with them, to think critically about the ethical, conceptual, and methodological questions that are raised by the theory and practice of psychiatry. It considers questions that concern the minds relationship to the brain, the origins of our norms for thinking and behavior, and the place of psychiatry in medicine, and in society more generally. With a focus on the current debates around psychiatrys diagnostic categories, the authors ask where these categories come from, if psychiatry should be looking to find new categories that are based more immediately on observations of the brain, and whether psychiatrists .