Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Personal
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Epistemological
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Historical
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Psychopathology
Book Subtitle: Creative Convergences
Editors: Ivana S. Marková, Eric Chen
Series Title: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43439-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43438-0Published: 12 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43441-0Published: 12 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43439-7Published: 11 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8663
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8671
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 297
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychopathology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Mind