Background: To better understand the kinds of ethical challenges that emerge when using
coercion in mental healthcare, and the importance of these ethical challenges, this article …

This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary
issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando …

The biopsychosocial model is the conceptual status quo of contemporary psychiatry.
Although it has played an important role in combatting psychiatric dogmatism, it has …

The distinction between normality and psychopathology has long been subject to debate.
DSM-III and DSM-IV provided a definition of mental disorder to help clinicians address this …

While the ICD-DSM paradigm has been a major advance in clinical psychiatry, its
usefulness for biological psychiatry is debated. By defining consensus-based disorders …

The nature of mental illness has been the subject of passionate discussion throughout
history. In ancient Greece Plato, 1, 2 promoting a mentalist definition of mental illness, was …

The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, second
edition examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is: its …

Work at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry has an extensive and influential
history, and has received increased attention recently, with the emergence of professional …

" Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science" explores conceptual issues in psychiatry from the
perspective of analytic philosophy of science. Through an examination of those features of …

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 …