Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry (Oxford Medical Publications) - Hardcover

Bolton, Derek; Hill, Professor Jonathan

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9780192615046: Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry (Oxford Medical Publications)

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ISBN 10: 0192615041 ISBN 13: 9780192615046

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

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Examining psychiatry from a philosophical perspective, this treatise explores problems concerning the "scientific status" of various methods of enquiry and treatment, and the relation between the competing "orientations" in psychiatry. Both problems involve issues in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. These and related problems arise with surprising frequency and urgency in both clinical research and practice.

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Review:

...an excellent discussion and philosophical critque of the use of the term 'mental disorder'. (The Psychologist)

The first edition of this book published in 1996, is already something of a classic. This second edition... is an excellent book that should be read by any mental health professiona, carer or user of mental health services who is trying to reconcile the myriad explanations put forward as causes of mental illness or justifications for a treatment's efficacy. (Mental Health Today)

From reviews of the previous edition:

This book represents a spirited effort to retain some respect for meaning in human life. It is very well written and eloquently argued. It should be read by all philosophers and by psychologists and psychiatrists interested in the foundations of their discipline. (Psychological Medicine)

Recent work on evolutionary psychology emphasizes the importance of understanding the evolutionary function of cognitive mechanisms in charaterizing mental disorders. Bolton and Hill's account offers an important variant on these new approaches. (The Philosophical Review)

This book succeeds in initiating a genuine process of interaction between the world of mental health and that of philosophy of mind. It is exemplary in its scholarship and clarity. (Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor, University College, London, and Research Director, Anna Freud Centre)

This book will be a landmark in the philosophy of psychiatry, and should be read by anybody interested in mental disorder or the philosophy of mind. (David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy of Science, Kings College, London)

A meticulously crafted account of meaning and cause which generates a theory of mind rich enough to encompass the wide diversity of human psychopathology. (K. W. M. Fulford, Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick)

About the Author:

Jonathan Hill is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Liverpool University.

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