198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers an ability-based view of mental disorders. It develops a detailed analysis of the concept of inability that is relevant in the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic context by drawing on the most recent literature on the concepts of ability, reasons, and harm.
What is it to have a mental disorder? This book contends that an individual has a mental disorder if and only if (1) they... Read more
Introduction
1. The Method
2. Harm Views and Action Views
3. Biological Function Views
4. The Rehability View
5. Defending the Rehability View
6. Case Study: Addictive Disorder
Conclusion
Biography
Sanja Dembić is a researcher at the “Human Abilities” Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Berlin. Her paper “Defining Addictive Disorder: Abilities Reconsidered” (Philosophers’ Imprint 2021) won the Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy 2021 by the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN).
