Rethinking Psychopathology
Creative Convergences
Editors: Marková, Ivana S., Chen, Eric (Eds.)
Free Preview- - 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.
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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.
- Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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The Academic Beginnings of Germán Berrios at the ‘Universidad Nacional Mayor De San Marcos’
Pages 9-20
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Notes on the Work of Professor German E. Berrios
Pages 21-22
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From Neuropsychiatry to Social Cognition: A Journey with Berrios
Pages 23-27
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Conceptual Histories in Psychiatry: Perspectives Across Time, Language and Culture in the Work of German Berrios
Pages 29-38
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Rethinking Psychopathology
- Book Subtitle
- Creative Convergences
- Editors
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- Ivana S. Marková
- Eric Chen
- Series Title
- Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-43439-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-43439-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-43438-0
- Series ISSN
- 2523-8663
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 297
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
- Topics