Background Mental health and mental illness have been contested concepts for decades,
with a wide variety of models being proposed. To date, there has been no exhaustive review …

Jonathan Y. Tsou examines and defends positions on central issues in philosophy of
psychiatry. The positions defended assume a naturalistic and realist perspective and are …

For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions
remain: Is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of …

The problem of delusion–das Wahnproblem–constitutes the central puzzle of descriptive
psychopathology. The question 'what is it to suffer delusion?'is easy to ask, but surprisingly …

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF FEMINIST BIOETHICS Page 1 Page 2 Wendy A. Rogers
is Distinguished Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia. She publishes …

One approach that has tried to define mental disorder is called" natural function objectivism."
According to natural function objectivism, it is possible to base the demarcation between …

Human behavior and thought often exhibit a familiar pattern of within group similarity and
between group difference. Many of these patterns are attributed to cultural differences. For …

A prevailing view holds that the main goal of mental health promotion is to maintain and
improve positive mental health, which is not merely defined by the absence of mental …

ABSTRACT I argue that despite the merits of Jefferson's account of a brain disorder, which
are many, the notion of function she deploys is unsuitable to the overall goals of that …

How do people understand the concepts of mental health and disorder? The objective of this
paper is to examine the impact of several factors on people's judgments about whether a …