The Philosophy and Psychiatry (Oxford Handbooks) Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Guidebook (Philosophy and Psychiatry from an International Perspective) Jennifer Radden, Oxford ⚠️This book is in English only. The cover has some minor creasing and small scratches. There is slight natural soiling on the side. The contents appear to be in relatively clean condition with no writing. Please consider purchasing if you understand that this is a used book. Shipped via Mercari delivery. [Content Introduction, Translated] This aims to define this stimulating field and to clarify the philosophical assumptions and issues underlying the theory and practice of psychiatry, the categories of mental disorders, and the theoretical basis of their social, clinical, and legal treatment. As a field of medicine and therapeutic practice, psychiatry relies deeply and inevitably on philosophical premises. Concepts of rationality, personality, and autonomy shape our understanding and treatment frameworks for mental disorders. Philosophical questions about evidence, reality, truth, science, and values give meaning to all social institutions and practices related to mental health care. The relationship between the mind, the heart, and the mind and body, subjectivity and consciousness, individual identity and personality, thought, will, memory, and emotion are the material of both traditional philosophical inquiry and the business of psychiatry. In the last two decades of the 20th century, a new field of study called the philosophy of psychiatry began to form. There was a growing recognition that philosophical thought underlies many aspects of clinical practice, the theorization and research of psychiatry, mental health policy, and the economics and politics of mental health care, and philosophers, practitioners, and psychiatrists trained in philosophy began a series of important interdisciplinary exchanges. This volume presents some of the research results from those exchanges. Leading thinkers in the field, including clinicians, philosophers, psychologists, and interdisciplinary teams, offer their own arguments. These arguments are not only explanatory and critical, but also reflect the authors' unique, often powerful and imaginative perspectives and theories. All arguments are pioneering new theoretical foundations. As befits such interdisciplinary efforts, they are methodologically eclectic, with diverse and contradictory assumptions and conclusions. All of these constitute important new explorations, definitions, and mappings of the philosophical aspects of psychiatric theory and practice.