Classifying Psychopathology
Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2023
Summary
Leading philosophers of psychiatry examine current psychiatric classification systems, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and question their adequacy for diagnosis, treatment, and research. The contributors explore whether mental disorders are natural kinds, grounded in the real world, and discuss the implications for psychiatric categorization. They examine topics such as taxometric methods for identifying natural kinds, the inherent errors and biases …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549592 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026254959X |
| Author: | Harold Kincaid, Jacqueline A. Sullivan |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Harold Kincaid
Harold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics and Director of the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics at the University of Cape Town. He is the coeditor of Distributed Cognition and the Will- Individual Volition and Social Context and What Is Addiction? (both published by the MIT Press).
Jacqueline A. Sullivan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, London, Ontario, and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of multiple recent journal articles on topics in philosophy of neuroscience.
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