Psychiatry as Medicine

1. Front Matter

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2. Summary and Conclusions

   • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi

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3. Introduction

   • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi

   Pages 5-11

4. Generalism vs. Externalism: The Concept of Disease

   • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi

   Pages 13-50

5. Contemporary Schools of Psychopathology

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6. The Rise of Scientific Psychotherapy

   • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi

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7. Trends in 20th Century Psychotherapy

   • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi

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8. Conclusion

   • Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi

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9. Back Matter

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PREFACE This volume is a sequel to yet independent of our Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1976. Whereas our first book centered on diagnosis, this centers on treatment. In our first volume, all discussions of nosology (theory of illness) and of treatment was ancillary to our discussion of diagnosis; similarly all discussion of this volume dealing with nosology - there is very little on diagnosis here - is ancillary to our discussion of psychotherapy. It is still our profoundest conviction that to speak of treatment without diagnosis is meaningless, if not irresponsible, since otherwise one does not know what one is talking about. Hence, our present study, though it centers on theories of treatment, links psychotherapy with psychopathology. It is the rationale of psychotherapy which is of importance, and the rationale dwells in this link. We wish our present study to be self-contained and understood by readers who are not familiar with our first book - or with any specific literature. Our discussion of medicine in general, meaning the rationale of therapy in general, helps the uninitiated reader, as well as the initiated, we hope: it certainly has helped us. We did not see how else can we study a branch of medicine; we felt the need for some idea of how medicine is supposed to work.

• Psychotherapie
• Sigmund Freud
• psychiatry
• psychoanalysis
• psychology

• the Sackler School of Medicine and F. Brüll Community Mental Health Center Kupat Holim, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  Yehuda Fried

• Tel-Aviv University, Israel

  Joseph Agassi

• York University, Toronto, Canada

  Joseph Agassi

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