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Defining Mental Disorder - Jerome Wakefield And His Critics

by Andreas De Block, Dominic Murphy, Harold Kincaid, Jonathan Sholl, Justin Garson, Leen De Vreese, Mael Lemoine, Peter Zachar, Philip Gerrans, Rachel Cooper, Steeves Demazeux e Tim Thornton

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 "Grapples with the legacy of Jerome Wakefield, one of the most influential critics of modern psychiatry and the use of the DSM for psychiatric diagnosis"--
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Scaffolded Minds - Integration And Disintegration

by Somogy Varga

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.In Scaffolded Minds, Somogy Varga offers a novel account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders. The book is part of the growing philosophical engagement with empirically informed philosophy of mind, which studies the interfaces between philosophy and cognitive science. Varga draws on two recent shifts within empirically informed philosophy of mind: the first, toward an intensified study of the embodied mind; and the second, toward a study of the disordered mind that acknowledges the convergence of the explanatory concerns of psychiatry and interdisciplinary inquiries into the mind.Varga sets out to accomplish a dual task: theoretical mapping of cognitive scaffolding; and the application/calibration of fine-grained philosophical distinctions to empirical research. He introduces the notion of actively scaffolded cognition (ASC) and offers a taxonomy that distinguishes between intrasomatic and extrasomatic scaffolding. He then shows that ASC offers a productive framework for considering certain characteristic features of mental disorders, focusing on altered bodily experience and social cognition deficits. With Cognitive Scaffolding, Varga aims to establish that shifting attention from mental symptoms to fine-grained sensorimotor aspects can lead to identifying diagnostic subtypes or even specific sensorimotor markers for early diagnosis.
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Real Hallucinations - Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, And The Interpersonal World

by Matthew Ratcliffe

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.
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Being Amoral - Psychopathy And Moral Incapacity

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency.
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Psychiatry In The Scientific Image

by Dominic Murphy

70,23€ + 10% CARD

 An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.
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Addiction And Responsibility

119,25€ + 10% CARD

 The intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical, legal, research, and clinical contexts.
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Ethical Treatment Of Depression - Autonomy Through Psychotherapy

by Paul Biegler

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy.
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When Self-Consciousness Breaks - Alien Voices And Inserted Thoughts

by G. Lynn Stephens e George Graham

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 An examination of verbal hallucinations and thought insertion as examples of "alienated self-consciousness."
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Myth Of Pain

by Valerie Gray Hardcastle

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 Valerie Gray Hardcastle argues that both professional and lay definitions of pain are wrongheaded—with consequences for how pain and pain patients are treated, how psychological disorders are understood, and how clinicians define the mind/body relationship.Pain, although very common, is little understood. Worse still, according to Valerie Gray Hardcastle, both professional and lay definitions of pain are wrongheaded—with consequences for how pain and pain patients are treated, how psychological disorders are understood, and how clinicians define the mind/body relationship.Hardcastle offers a biologically based complex theory of pain processing, inhibition, and sensation and then uses this theory to make several arguments: (1) psychogenic pains do not exist; (2) a general lack of knowledge about fundamental brain function prevents us from distinguishing between mental and physical causes, although the distinction remains useful; (3) most pain talk should be eliminated from both the folk and academic communities; and (4) such a biological approach is useful generally for explaining disorders in pain processing. She shows how her analysis of pain can serve as a model for the analysis of other psychological disorders and suggests that her project be taken as a model for the philosophical analysis of disorders in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience.
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Classifying Psychopathology - Mental Kinds And Natural Kinds

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 Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
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Metaphysics Of Psychopathology

by Peter Zachar

119,25€ + 10% CARD

 An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as "real," "true," and "objective" and the implications for classification and diagnosis.
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Extraordinary Science And Psychiatry - Responses To The Crisis In Mental Health Research

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
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Real Hallucinations - Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, And The Interpersonal World

by Matthew (Professor, University Of York) Ratcliffe

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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 A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.
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Disturbed Consciousness - New Essays On Psychopathology And Theories Of Consciousness

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
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Imagination And The Meaningful Brain

by Arnold H. Modell

70,23€ + 10% CARD

 The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works—how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology, as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds, must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.Assuming that other mammals are conscious and conscious of their feelings, Modell emphasizes evolutionary continuities and discontinuities of emotion. The limbic system, the emotional brain, is of ancient origin, but only humans have the capacity for generative imagination. By means of metaphor, we are able to interpret, displace, and transform our feelings. To bolster his argument, Modell draws on a variety of disciplines—including psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. Only by integrating the objectivity of neuroscience, the phenomenology of introspection, and the intersubjective knowledge of psychoanalysis, he claims, will we be able fully to understand how the mind works.
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Brain Fiction - Self-Deception And The Riddle Of Confabulation

by William Hirstein

50,35€ + 10% CARD

 Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate—to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth. A stroke victim, for example, will describe in detail a conference he attended over the weekend when in fact he has not left the hospital. Normal people, too, sometimes have a tendency to confabulate; rather than admitting "I don''t know," some people will make up an answer or an explanation and express it with complete conviction. In Brain Fiction, William Hirstein examines confabulation and argues that its causes are not merely technical issues in neurology or cognitive science but deeply revealing about the structure of the human intellect.Hirstein describes confabulation as the failure of a normal checking or censoring process in the brain—the failure to recognize that a false answer is fantasy, not reality. Thus, he argues, the creative ability to construct a plausible-sounding response and some ability to check that response are separate in the human brain. Hirstein sees the dialectic between the creative and checking processes—"the inner dialogue"—as an important part of our mental life. In constructing a theory of confabulation, Hirstein integrates perspectives from different fields, including philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology to achieve a natural mix of conceptual issues usually treated by philosophers with purely empirical issues; information about the distribution of certain blood vessels in the prefrontal lobes of the brain, for example, or the behavior of split-brain patients can shed light on the classic questions of philosophy of mind, including questions about the function of consciousness. This first book-length study of confabulation breaks ground in both philosophy and cognitive science.
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Public Understanding Of Science - A History Of Communicating Scientific Ideas

by David (University Of Durham, Uk) Knight

79,75€ + 10% CARD

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 Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, Knight explores the history of science to show how the successes and failures of our ancestors can help us understand the position science comes to occupy now.
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Scaffolded Minds - Integration And Disintegration

by Somogy (Assistant Professor, University Of Memphis) Varga

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Disturbed Consciousness - New Essays On Psychopathology And Theories Of Consciousness

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Teaching Machines - The History Of Personalized Learning

by Audrey Watters

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The 360â° Gaze - Immersions In Media, Society, And Culture

by Christian Stiegler

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The Flip Side Of Free - Understanding The Economics Of The Internet

by Michael Kende

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People Count - Contact-Tracing Apps And Public Health

by Susan Landau

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Definingâ Mental Disorder - Jerome Wakefield And His Critics

by Denis Forest e Luc Faucher

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 "Grapples with the legacy of Jerome Wakefield, one of the most influential critics of modern psychiatry and the use of the DSM for psychiatric diagnosis"--
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