The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives
What there is: of mind and brain
How we know: understanding the mind
What is scientific method?
Reading Karl Jaspers's General Psychopathology
What is scientific method in psychiatry?
Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy
What we value: the ethics of psychiatry
Desire and self: Hellenistic and Islamic approaches
On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth?
Order out of chaos: from insanity to DSM-III to a pluralistic nosology
A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types
Dimensions versus categories
The perils of belief: psychosis
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression
Life's rollercoaster: mania
Being self-aware: insight
Calvinism or hedonism?
Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry
A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis
Being there: existential psychotherapy
Beyond eclecticism: teaching psychotherapy in the twenty-first century
Bridging the biology/psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism
Why it is hard to be pluralist.
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The concepts of psychiatry : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness by S. Nassir Ghaemi. ISBN 0801873770. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
