Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Introduction; Origins, outcomes and how to use this book; PART I - CORE CONCEPTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND MENTAL HEALTH; 1. Philosophical problems in mental health practice and research; 2. Arguments good and bad: an introduction to philosophical logic for practitioners; 3. Experiences good and bad: an introduction to psychopathology, classification and diagnosis for philosophers; 4. Philosophical methods in mental health practice and research; 5. Philosophical outputs in mental health practice and research; PART II - A PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; 6. A brief history of mental disorder; 7. Karl Jaspers and general psychopathology; 8. Phenomenology and psychopathology; 9. Psychopathology and the ´Methodenstreit´; PART III - PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH; 10. Psychoanalysis: an introduction to the philosophy of science; 11. Psychopathology and the theory dependence of data; 12. Natural classifications, realism and psychopathology; 13. Diagnosis, explanation and causal information; 14. Causes, laws and reasons in psychiatric aetiology; 15. Knowledge, research and evidence-based medicine; PART IV - VALUES, ETHICS AND MENTAL HEALTH; 16. Tools of the trade: an introduction to psychiatric ethics; 17. From bioethics to values-based practice; 18. It´s the law! Rationality and consent as a case study in mental health law; 19. Values in psychiatric diagnosis; 20. From bioethics to values-based practice in psychiatric diagnosis; PART V - PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND MENTAL HEALTH; 21. Mind, brain and mental illness: an introduction to the philosophy of mind; 22. The mind-body problem and mental health, a philosophical update; 23. Reasons and the content of mental states: Part I - reductionist theories; 24. Reasons and the content of mental states: Part II - Anti-reductionism and discursive psychology; 25. Agency, causation and freedom; 26. Knowledge of other minds; 27. Personal identity and schizophrenia; Appendices