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Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
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Kincaid, Harold,Sullivan, Jacqueline A.,

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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1 online resource.
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A Metaphysics of Psychopathology
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Zachar, Peter

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…
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Gennaro, Rocco J.,

"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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Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and D…
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Patterson, Paul H.

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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