Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder
Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder
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9780198747253 |
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Paperback |
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17 Sep 2015 |
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Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder is an original new work focusing on the challenges we face when trying to interpret and understand mental illness. The book integrates a hermeneutical perspective, and shows how such an approach can reveal important facts about historical sources in psychiatry and the nature of dialogue in the therapeutic encounter. In addition, the book demonstrates how such an approach can be valuable for understanding the concept of mental disorder itself.
Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder brings fresh thinking to the philosophy of psychiatry, and will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of Mental Health and Philosophy.
Contents
1: Introduction: Hermeneutics, Naturalism and the Aims of This Book
2: Philosophy of Psychiatry
3: The Hermeneutics of Psychiatric Texts
4: Cognitivism and the Hermeneutics of Therapeutic Encounter
Part II
5: Introduction to Part II: Two Types of Criticism
6: Natural Kinds
7: Natural Functions
8: Having it Both Ways
9: The Hermeneutics of Mental Disorder
10: Conclusion
Authors
Somogy Varga , Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA
Somogy Varga earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He has worked at the Institute of Social Research (Goethe University), the Institute of Cognitive Science at the (University of Osnabrück, Germany) and the Centre for Subjectivity Research (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). His research has several foci, including Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of (Cognitive) Science, Moral Psychology, and Social Philosophy. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Intelligent Systems (FedEx Institute of Technology), a visiting research professor at the University of Copenhagen, and serves as the editor of the Southern Journal of Philosophy.