Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder: The Biocognitive Model for Psychiatry

ISBN-13: 9781032025308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 178 str.

Niall McLaren

Opis

This book presents an integrative, dualist model of mental disorder for psychiatry, as a counter to the so-called "biomedical" approach that dominates the field today.

Spis treści

Part I Basic principles. 1. Setting the scene for natural dualism. 2. Toward a natural dualism. 3. The mind as an informational space. 4. Toward a formal basis for a theory of mind. 5.The Natural Phenomenon of Emergence. Part II Implementation. 6. Information and the brain. 7. Implementing Dualism: Fundamental principles. 8.Implementing Dualism: The emerging model. 9. Applying the Biocognitive Model. 10. Psychopathology. Part III Conclusions. 11.Pointing to the future.

O autorze

Niall McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist with lengthy experience in remote area psychiatry and in the application of the philosophy of science to psychiatry.