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Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives

Proceedings of the Fourth Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, Texas, May 16–18, 1976

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. H. Tristram Engelhardt

    1. Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University, USA

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  2. Stuart F. Spicker

    1. University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 4)

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. American Legal Perspectives on Insanity: Some Roots in the Nineteenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. American Medico-Legal Traditions and Concepts of Mental Health: The Nineteenth Century

      • Chester R. Burns
      Pages 3-14

    3. Philosophical Reflections in the Nineteenth Century Medicolegal Discussion

      • Corinna Delkeskamp
      Pages 15-38

  3. Mental Illness and Mental Complaints: Some Conceptual Presuppositions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. How Much Neurosis Should We Bear?

      • Alan Donagan
      Pages 41-53

    3. Psychic Health, Mental Clarity, Self-Knowledge and Other Virtues

      • Stephen Toulmin
      Pages 55-70

    4. Models and Mental Illness

      • D. L. Creson
      Pages 71-77

    5. Disease Viewed as a Symbolic Category

      • Horacio Fabrega Jr.
      Pages 79-106

    6. Health and Disease: The Holistic Approach

      • Ruth Macklin
      Pages 107-117

  4. Phenomenological and Speculative Views of Mental Illness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. A Metabletic-Philosophical Evaluation of Mental Health

      • J. H. van den Berg
      Pages 121-135

    3. Synchronism and Therapy

      • Richard M. Zaner
      Pages 137-142

    4. The Psychiatrist as Philosopher

      • Stuart F. Spicker
      Pages 143-155

    5. Bibliography of the Works of Erwin W. Straus

      • Stuart F. Spicker
      Pages 157-167

    6. Environments of the Mind

      • Robert Neville
      Pages 169-176

    7. Luminosity: The Unconscious in the Integrated Person

      • Leonard C. Feldstein
      Pages 177-189

    8. Body, Mind, and Conditions of Novelty: Some Remarks on Leonard C. Feldstein’s Luminosity

      • Corinna Delkeskamp
      Pages 191-198

  5. Acting Freely and Acting in Good Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Motivational Disturbances and Free Will

      • Irving Thalberg
      Pages 201-220
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About this book

The concept 'health' is ambiguous [18,9, 11]. The concept 'mental health' is even more so. 'Health' compasses senses of well-being, wholeness, and sound­ ness that mean more than the simple freedom from illness - a fact appreci­ ated in the World Health Organization's definition of health as more than the absence of disease or infirmity [7]. The wide range of viewpoints of the con­ tributors to this volume attests to the scope of issues placed under the rubric 'mental health. ' These papers, presented at the Fourth Symposium on Philos­ ophy and Medicine, were written and discussed within a broad context of interests concerning mental health. Moreover, in their diversity these papers point to the many descriptive, evaluative, and, in fact, performative functions of statements concerning mental health. Before introducing the substance of these papers in any detail, I want to indicate the profound commerce between philosophical and psychological ideas in theories of mental health and disease. This will be done in part by a consideration of some conceptual developments in the history of psychiatry, as well as through an analysis of some of the functions of the notions of mental illness and health. 'Mental health' lays a special stress on the wholeness of human intuition, emotion, thought, and action.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University, USA

    H. Tristram Engelhardt

  • University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

    Stuart F. Spicker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Fourth Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, Texas, May 16–18, 1976

  • Editors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart F. Spicker

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6909-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1978

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0828-1Published: 31 December 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-6911-8Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-6909-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 302

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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