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  • Vagueness in Psychiatry

    Edited by Geert Keil, Lara Keuck, Rico Hauswald ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
    In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases are notoriously contentious. Philosophers and linguists call concepts that lack sharp ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD

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  • Alien Landscapes?

    Interpreting Disordered Minds

    by Jonathan Glover ...
    We have made huge progress in understanding the biology of mental illnesses, but comparatively little in interpreting them at the psychological level. The eminent philosopher Jonathan Glover believes that there is real hope of progress in the human interpretation of disordered minds.The challenge is that the inner worlds of people with psychiatric disorders can seem strange, like alien landscapes, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Understanding Other Minds

    Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience

    Edited by Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Lombardo, Helen Tager-Flusberg ...
    This book comprises 26 exciting chapters by internationally renowned scholars, addressing the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts and feelings of others, and to reflect on the contents of our own mindsa theory of mind (ToM). The four sections of the book cover developmental, cultural, and neurobiological approaches to ToM across ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Humanizing Madness

    Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences

    by Niall McLaren ...
    An application of the philosophy of science to psychiatryAlthough it's been 140 years since Maudley's groundbreaking treatise, modern psychiatry is in a state of intellectual collapse. No psychiatrist practicing today can point to a universally agreed model of mental disorder which explains the common observations of mental disorder, dictates a research program and ordains a form of management ... Read more

    $9.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

    Edited by KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Humanizing Psychiatry

    The Biocognitive Model

    by Niall McLaren ...
    Does psychiatry have a future?Assailed from many directions, under constant attack for its reliance on "a drug for all problems" and increasingly unable to attract bright new trainees, the specialty is showing every sign of terminal decline. The reason is simple: modern psychiatry has no formal model of mental disorder to guide its daily practice, teaching and research. Unfortunately, the orthodox ... Read more

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  • Philosophical issues in psychiatry III

    The Nature and Sources of Historical Change

    Edited by Kenneth S. Kendler, Josef Parnas ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    Psychiatry has long struggled with the nature of its diagnoses. The problems raised by questions about the nature of psychiatric illness are particularly fascinating because they sit at the intersection of philosophy, empirical psychiatric/psychological research, measurement theory, historical tradition and policy. In being the only medical specialty that diagnoses and treats mental illness, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Attention

    Edited by Sabine Kastner, Anna C. Nobre ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    During the last three decades, there have been enormous advances in our understanding of the neural mechanisms of selective attention at the network as well as the cellular level. The Oxford Handbook of Attention brings together the different research areas that constitute contemporary attention research into one comprehensive and authoritative volume. In 40 chapters, it covers the most important ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology

    Edited by Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus magnum - the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology). Jaspers was working at a time much like our own - with rapid expansion in the neurosciences, and responding to the philosophical challenges that this raised. The idea inspiring his ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Addiction and Weakness of Will

    by Lubomira Radoilska ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    The way in which society views addiction underlies how it treats, understands, blames, or even punishes those with addictive behaviours. This thought-provoking new book presents an original philosophical analysis bringing together addiction and weakness of will. Within the book, the author develops an integrated account of these two phenomena, rooted in a classical conception of akrasia as valuing ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Skillful Coping

    Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action

    by Hubert L. Dreyfus ...
    For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has addressed an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind. Dreyfus has inspired a whole generation of philosophers as he has creatively drawn on and clearly articulated the seminal works of thinkers like Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Foucault. This volume ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • The Visual (Un)Conscious and Its (Dis)Contents

    A microtemporal approach

    by Bruno G. Breitmeyer ...
    Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. For example, when a pedestrian steps onto a street and then suddenly steps back, to avoid being hit by an oncoming car, the pedestrian's visual system has been able to detect the car very rapidly. Since the registration of the approaching car in conscious vision could take a few hundreds of milliseconds - possibly too long to ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD