The metaphor of mental illness
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The metaphor of mental illness
（International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry / edited by Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford ... [et al.]）
Oxford University Press, 2006
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- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index
内容説明・目次
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: hardback ISBN 9780198530879
内容説明
This title includes the following features: Provides a clear review ofthe dispute over the reality of mental illness, introducing the reader to manyof the most important sources; Engages with sceptical contemporary approachessuch as Social Constructionism and the strong programme in the sociology ofknowledge, helping the reader to link different contemporary approaches to theexisting debate; Refers to contemporary disputes such as those about ADHD,helping the reader to see these in a new and wider light
目次
- 1. Introduction: the categorical argument
- PART I - ANSWERING RADICAL QUESTIONS
- 2. The likeness argument
- 3. The categorical argument
- PART II - METAPHOR
- 4. Metaphor
- 5. Two metaphors from physical medicine
- PART III - THE METAPHOR OF MENTAL ILLNESS
- 6. The metaphor of mental illness
- 7. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, social construction, and metaphor
- 8. Metaphors and models
- 9. Conclusions
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: pbk ISBN 9780198530886
内容説明
Despite the currency of the notion of mental illness, its legal and medical legitimacy, and the panoply of psychiatry and other mental health services which claim to treat it, there are those who take the radical sceptical line that mental illness is a fabrication. This is a book which takes this sceptical line seriously - perhaps more seriously than almost any other book not written by sceptics themselves. 'The Metaphor of Mental Illness' is a revaluation of the
traditional philosophical disputes about the existence and nature of mental illness. Sceptics and apologists have generally focused on the legitimacy of extending illness from the physical to the mental, by means of the likeness argument. This says that claimed mental illnesses, from ADHD to
schizophrenia, really are illnesses providing they are sufficiently similar to agreed physical illnesses. This book proposes that this argument is flawed: the likenesses to which the argument appeals appear when these examples have been categorised as illnesses, rather than the categorisation being evidenced by or derived from the likenesses. The categorisation of ADHD, schizophrenia, and so on, as illnesses is a matter of metaphor: an imaginative shift into the illness category.
The book puts forward a new view of and resolution of the issues, to which it carefully guides the reader. It is a book which engages with many contemporary issues and styles of analysis, but is accessible to anyone not familiar with these. It is full of examples, both historical and modern. It is a book both for the postgraduate student coming to grips with the issues for the first time, for the researcher who is interested in a new approach to the issues, and for mental health workers such
as psychiatrists who are interested in the fundamental assumptions of their field of work.
目次
- PART I - ANSWERING RADICAL QUESTIONS
- PART II - METAPHOR
- PART III - THE METAPHOR OF MENTAL ILLNESS
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