The Physical Basis of Mental Illness

ISBN-13: 9781138516618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 157 str.

Ronald Chase

Opis

This accessible volume sets an ambitious goal: to help people better understand the nature of mental illness

Spis treści

Preface, 1. Three Historical Vignettes, 2. The Search for Understanding, 3. Descartes’ Dualism, 4. Dualism Supports Stigmatization and Other Unhelpful Attitudes, 5. Philosophical Alternatives to Cartesian Dualism, 6. Mental Illnesses are Brain Illnesses, 7. Toward a Reconciliation of Philosophy and Science in Psychiatry, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Ronald Chase