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Rethinking Psychopathology

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  • presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry. This is based on a justified epistemological position which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding in this field.
  • explores mental/behavioural phenomena and mental disorders as complexes of neurobiology and socio-cultural meanings,
  • presents a transdisciplinary approach to the study and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Part of the book series: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences (THHSS)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introduction

    • Ivana S. Marková, Eric Chen
    Pages 1-5
  3. Epistemological

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
    2. Critique of Psychopathological Reason: The Work of G.E. Berrios

      • Filiberto Fuentenebro, Luis M. Chiva
      Pages 41-55
    3. What Is Psychiatry?

      • Ivana S. Marková
      Pages 57-64
    4. Cultural Configurators and the Formation of Mental Symptoms

      • Rogelio Luque, J. M. Villagrán Moreno
      Pages 91-101
    5. Psychogenesis: Conceptual Analysis

      • J. M. Villagrán Moreno, Rogelio Luque
      Pages 103-116

About this book

This book presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry that is based on a justified epistemological position, which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding. Psychiatry as a medical specialism was constructed in the nineteenth century through the interplay of both the natural sciences and the human/social sciences. This interplay has created a hybrid discipline that spans biological and socio-cultural-historical domains, which has raised challenges for its understanding and research. This book focuses on one of the principal challenges – how can we explore mental symptoms and mental disorders as complexes of neurobiology on the one hand and meaning on the other?

The chapters in this book, dedicated to Germán E Berrios, founder of the Cambridge school of psychopathology, tackles distinctive aspects of psychopathology or related areas. By means of a combination of approaches, chapters seek to unfold another element in our understanding of this field as well as raise new directions for its further study.

Rethinking Psychopathology is a valuable resource for clinical psychologists and psychotherapists, psychological researchers, historians of psychology, cultural psychologists, critical psychologists, social scientists, philosophers of psychology, and philosophers of science. 

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hull York Medical School, Allam Medical Building, University of Hull, Hull, UK

    Ivana S. Marková

  • Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Eric Chen

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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