Psychiatry in the Scientific Image

by Dominic Murphy

Book Overview

An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.

In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262517442
• ISBN13: 9780262517447
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher