Mental disorder (earlier entitled “illness” or “disease”), is ascribed to deviations from normal
thoughts, reasoning, feelings, attitudes, and actions that are by their subjects, or by others …

This is the first introductory textbook of its kind devoted to philosophy of psychiatry, offering a
thorough and accessible investigation of the conceptual and philosophical problems at the …

This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly
emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors aim to …

Because most psychiatric illnesses are complex phenomena, no single method or approach
is sufficient to explain them or the experiences of persons who suffer from them. In The …

The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in suffering, loss of freedom and
life opportunities, negative impacts on education, work satisfaction and productivity …

What makes a medical disorder men-tal rather than (exclusively) somatic or physical?
Psychiatry to some extent depends for its existence as a medical specialty on the distinction …

Since the early 1990s, the philosophical debate over broad accounts of mental illness has
stalled. Although there remains unresolved tension between mixed and medical models of …

Philosophical discussions of mental illness fall into three families. First, there are topics that
arise when we treat psychiatry as a special science and deal with it using the methods and …

In contrast to most other medical specialties, psychiatry has yet to “come of age,” ie, matured
as a clinical practice of applied science providing rational treatments directed at known …

Psychiatry is concerned with “mental disorders” intended as dysfunctions of the mind;
however, as a medical discipline, psychiatry follows the organic medical model, which is …