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• Title: Dominic Murphy: Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
• Author : Philosophy in Review
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 49 KB

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Dominic Murphy Psychiatry in the Scientific Image. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2006. Pp. 410. US$36.00 (cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-262-134355-2). There are many approaches to understanding mental illness; contemporary psychiatry builds on a medical approach. Murphy defends a particular version of scientific psychiatry, with a focus on how it theorizes mental illness, rather than on how it tries to help people. So his book is about the reality of mental disorders, their explanation, and classification. He explores the definition of mental illness, and discusses what a scientific psychiatric theory should and should not aim to achieve. Murphy ends with an extensive discussion of the objectivity of psychiatric classification. For most topics, he illustrates his points by discussing how they apply to one or more kinds of mental illness. Throughout he gives the reader helpful signposts as to what he has argued so far, what he is about to argue, and how that fits in with the overall structure of the book. This will be especially useful for those readers who are not planning to read the whole work, or who will read different parts at different times. This is a dense, scholarly work of over 400 pages that refers to current work in both psychiatry and philosophy, including philosophy of medicine, philosophy of mind, general philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology. There is a short, very incomplete index.

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