Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide

by David H. Brendel

Book Overview

A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.

Psychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain functioning or primarily an art of understanding the human mind in its social and cultural context? Competing conceptions of mental illness as amenable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513250
• ISBN13: 9780262513258
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher