{"product_id":"psychiatry-in-the-scientific-image-paperback","title":"Psychiatry in the Scientific Image - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDominic Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, \u003c\/i\u003eDominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone is said to have a mental illness, what about it is mental? What makes it an illness? How might we explain and classify it? A system of psychiatric classification settles these questions by distinguishing the mental illnesses and showing how they stand in relation to one another. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by the project of explaining and classifying mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurphy argues that the current literature on mental illness--exemplified by the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders\u003c\/i\u003e--is an impediment to research; it lacks a coherent concept of the mental and a satisfactory account of disorder, and yields too much authority to commonsense thought about the mind. He argues that the explanation of mental illness should meet the standards of good explanatory practice in the cognitive neurosciences, and that the classification of mental disorders should group symptoms into conditions based on the causal structure of the normal mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDominic Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 422\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.71 x 5.75 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 13, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751235518752,"sku":"9780262517447","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1a248510dd811c692513564ec765a30d.webp?v=1779968290","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/psychiatry-in-the-scientific-image-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}