Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity values, and volition. The 'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry' offers a comprehensive reference resource for this area, suitable for both students …
R.D. Laing's most controversial book to date is "a real contribution to the literature of wonder -rich, disorderly, suggestive, inconclusive, and humane" (Kirkus Review). A startingly original enquiry into the nature and origin of human feelings, it is also an intensely personal…
This text explores the relationship between evolutionary theory and philosophy of psychiatry. In particular, it discusses a number of reasons why philosophers of psychiatry should take an interest in evolutionary explanations of mental disorders, and more generally, in evolution…
From the publisher. Maladapting Minds discusses a number of reasons why philosophers of psychiatry should take an interest in evolutionary explanations of mental disorders and, more generally, in evolutionary thinking. First of all, there is the nascent field of evolutionary psy…
