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Psychiatric Polarities: Methodology and Practice
Phillip R. Slavney
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Description for Psychiatric Polarities: Methodology and Practice
Paperback. In Psychiatric Polarities, their examination of these conflicts demonstrates how a methodological approach can help to resolve disagreements rooted in partisan commitments. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JM; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 227.
In this companion volume to their widely acclaimed Perspectives of Psychiatry, Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., and Paul R. McHugh, M.D., argue that the discontinuity of brain and mind is the source of much of psychiatry's discord, for it leads psychiatrists to think about their discipline in terms of polar opposites: conscious or unconscious; explanation or understanding; paternalism or autonomy. Psychiatric Polarities brings together the history of ideas and such clinical issues as suicide and bipolar disorder to identify, describe, and debate these and other polar oppositions that arise from psychiatry's inherent ambiguity. There is no single conceptual ... Read more
In this companion volume to their widely acclaimed Perspectives of Psychiatry, Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., and Paul R. McHugh, M.D., argue that the discontinuity of brain and mind is the source of much of psychiatry's discord, for it leads psychiatrists to think about their discipline in terms of polar opposites: conscious or unconscious; explanation or understanding; paternalism or autonomy. Psychiatric Polarities brings together the history of ideas and such clinical issues as suicide and bipolar disorder to identify, describe, and debate these and other polar oppositions that arise from psychiatry's inherent ambiguity. There is no single conceptual ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
219g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419763
SKU
V9781421419763
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About Phillip R. Slavney
Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., is the Eugene Meyer III Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Paul R. McHugh, M.D., is a University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Reviews for Psychiatric Polarities: Methodology and Practice
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