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Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (vii, 533 pages) :illustrations.
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Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement. In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), asking whether current systems ar…
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- 9780262322430
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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 psychopathology. Proposing what he calls a scientifically inspired pragmatism, Zachar considers such topics as the essentialist …
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- 9780262322270
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- 1 online resource (287 pages) :illustrations.
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Disturbed consciousness : new essays on psychopathology and theories of consc…
"In Disturbed consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors--some of them discussing or defending their own theoretical work--consider not only how a theory of consciousness can account for a specific psychopathological condition but also how the characteristics of a psychop…
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- 9780262330213
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- 1 online resource (vi, 376 pages) :illustrations.
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Philosophical psychopathology
"A Bradford book."Philosophical Psychopathology is a benchmark volume for an emerging field where mental disorders serve as the springboard for philosophical insights. It brings together innovative, current research by Owen Flanagan, Robert Gordon, Robert Van Gulick, and others on mental disorders of consciousness, self-consciousness, emotions, personality, and action and belief as well as gene…
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- 9780262274227
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- 1 online resource (ix, 332 pages)
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Plasticity of development
Revised papers presented at a series of lectures, during the 1986-87 academic year. Organized by the Program for Developmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park."A Bradford book."Errata slip inserted.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269193
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- 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages) :illustrations
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Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and D…
Studies the possible interplay between the brain, immune system, and mental illnesses; how the discrepancies in the immune system can affect pregnant women and their fetuses; and the pros and cons of child vaccinations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298568
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Behavioral insights
An accessible introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this "automatic" side of our behavior. As a result, governments make ineffective policies, businesses create bad products, and ind…
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American trip :set, setting, and the psychedelic experience in the Twentieth …
"Do drugs produce fixed, predictable effects or are their effects a product of society and culture? American Trip explores this question, presenting the most comprehensive description of mid-twentieth-century hallucinogenic drug research thus far. American Trip follows seven different mid-twentieth-century schools of psychedelic research including the military, the psychotherapeutic, the spirit…
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- 0262358956
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Adaptive dynamics :the theoretical analysis of behavior
In this book J.E.R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of pa…
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- 9780262284189
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