157 Pages
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Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
157 Pages
by
Routledge
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This accessible volume sets an ambitious goal: to help people better understand the nature of mental illness. The term itself is a problem for most who believe, consciously or not, that individuals have both a mind and a body. Ronald Chase is interested in the roots of this thinking about mental illness, and finds it in philosophical dualism, famously promoted by Rene Descartes in the seventeenth... Read more
Preface, 1. Three Historical Vignettes, 2. The Search for Understanding, 3. Descartes’ Dualism, 4. Dualism Supports Stigmatization and Other Unhelpful Attitudes, 5. Philosophical Alternatives to Cartesian Dualism, 6. Mental Illnesses are Brain Illnesses, 7. Toward a Reconciliation of Philosophy and Science in Psychiatry, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Ronald Chase
