Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry - Grand Format

Mental health care is in a state of flux.The rise of user centred care, developments in models of diagnosis and increasingly sophisticated tools to guide values based practice have all changed the intellectual landscape. This has prompted a recent rebirth of philosophy of psychiatry dedicated to exploring the conceptual underpinning of mental health care. This new field attempts to explore the valuesibase of mental health care, the role of meanings in understanding subjects' experiences and the scientific basis of psychiatry as reflected in the rise of evidence-based medicine and the ongoing revision of psychiatric taxonomy.
Written by one of the people driving forward the new agenda, this book charts these different areas in three sections onValues, Meanings and Facts. It also includes a chapter-by-chapter guide to further reading and a philosophical glossaryAs the first overview of this contested field, this is the essential guide to the new philosophy of psychiatry.