The Abraham Dilemma: A divine delusion
George Graham
The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion focuses on the topic of religious delusion - on the disorder's causes, contents, consequences, diagnosis and treatment. The title argues that we ...
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Addiction and Weakness of Will
Lubomira Radoilska
This thought-provoking resource presents an original philosophical analysis bringing together addiction and weakness of will. The author develops an integrated account of these two ...
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Alternative Perspectives on Psychiatric Validation: DSM, IDC, RDoC, and Beyond
Peter Zachar, Drozdstoj St. Stoyanov, Massimiliano Aragona, and Assen Jablensky (eds)
Many of the current debates about validity in psychiatry and psychology are predicated on the unexpected failure to validate commonly used diagnostic categories. The recognition of this ...
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Autonomy and Mental Disorder
Lubomira Radoilska (ed.)
Autonomy and Mental Disorder explores the nature and value of autonomy with reference to mental disorder, reflects on instances of mental disorder where autonomy is apparently compromised, ...
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Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds: Treating the whole person in psychiatry
Eric Matthews
How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This resource seeks to answer such questions by going to their ...
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Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
Lisa Bortolotti
This resource is an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of delusions that brings together the psychological literature on the aetiology and the behavioural manifestations of ...
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Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw, and Steven R Sabat (eds)
This resource brings together philosophers and psychiatrists to explore the conceptual issues raised by this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers, the authors ...
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Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Philosophical Perspectives
Christian Perring and Lloyd Wells (eds)
This resource is the first in the IPPP series to explore this highly complex topic. Though many of the ethical issues important in adult mental health are of relevance in the child, there ...
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Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice
Andy Lock and Tom Strong (eds)
Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice presents an overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of their conceptual underpinnings.
Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The psychopathology of common sense
Giovanni Stanghellini
This resource was created to help practitioners better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses, and using self-descriptions, its emphasis is ...
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