Rethinking Psychopathology: Creative Convergences

by Ivana S. Markovï, Eric Chen

Overview

This book presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry that is based on a justified epistemological position, which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding. Psychiatry as a medical specialism was constructed in the nineteenth century through the interplay of both the natural sciences and the human/social sciences. This interplay has created a hybrid discipline that spans biological and socio-cultural-historical domains, which has raised challenges for its understanding and research. This book focuses on one of the principal challenges – how can we explore mental symptoms and mental disorders as complexes of neurobiology on the one hand and meaning on the other?

The chapters in this book, dedicated to Germán E Berrios, founder of the Cambridge school of psychopathology, tackles distinctive aspects of psychopathology or related areas. By means of a combination of approaches, chapters seek to unfold another element in our understanding of this field as well as raise new directions for its further study.

Rethinking Psychopathology is a valuable resource for clinical psychologists and psychotherapists, psychological researchers, historians of psychology, cultural psychologists, critical psychologists, social scientists, philosophers of psychology, and philosophers of science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030434380
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	06/12/2020
Series:	Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Section I: Personal.- Chapter 2: The academic beginnings of Germán Berrios at the ‘Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos’.- Chapter 3: Experiences of working under German Berrios.- Chapter 4: From neuropsychiatry to social cognition: a journey with Berrios.- Chapter 5: Conceptual histories in psychiatry, perspectives across time, language and culture in the work of German Berrios.- Section II: Epistemological.- Chapter 6: Critique of psychopathological reason. The work of G.E. Berrios.- Chapter 7: What is psychiatry?.- Chapter 8: Recovering the context in psychopathology.- Chapter 9: Stress and distress in psychopathology: a conceptual analysis.- Chapter 10: Cultural configurators and the formation of mental symptoms.- Chapter 11: Psychogenesis: conceptual analysis.- Chapter 12: Supervenience and the mind-body problem in psychiatry.- Section III: Historical; Chapter 13: At the origins of hermeneutic psychopathology.- Chapter 14: The discontents of psychiatry: what can the history of psychiatry and values-based medicine contribute to resolving them?.- Chapter 15: The origins of psychiatric epidemiology in Chile in the 20th century, as a tool for community action: an historical analysis.- Chapter 16: The evolution of Portuguese psychiatry in the first decades of the twentieth century.- Chapter 17: Recalibrating the work of Juan Valverde de Amusco in the sixteenth century anatomical revolution.- Chapter 18: August Wimmer’s concept: psychogenic psychoses – a source-critical study.- Section IV: Psychopathological.- Chapter 19: Formal thought disorder in severe and enduring mental illness.- Chapter 20: Paved with good intentions: defining traumatic stress disorders.- Chapter 21: Distortions of time experience and descriptive psychopathology.- Chapter 22: Visual symbology and psychopathology in Frida Kahlo’s work.- Chapter 23: The contribution of the Cambridge schoolof psychopathology for the understanding of psychosomatic symptoms.- Section V: Neuropsychiatry.- Chapter 24: Researching Wilson’s disease.- Chapter 25: Reflections on the psychopathology of acquired brain injury.