Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Offers an introduction to 'philosophy of psychiatry', a framework for study and skill development, and an overview of research. This book focuses on case studies in 5 key topic areas, supported by selected readings from philosophy and mental health, thinking skills exercises, self-test questions, learning points and guides to further reading.

There is an introduction for philosophers to classification and descriptive psychopathology, and for practitioners to philosophical methods (including logic). The philosophical topics covered include philosophical methods (analytic and Continental); phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, logical empiricism and its successors; idealism and realism; reasons and causes; and modern theories of mind and brain, free will and personal identity. Topics from mental health include psychiatry and 'anti-psychiatry'; Jaspers' psychopathology and the new neurosciences; the future of psychiatric classifications; strengths-based approaches, recovery practice, social inclusion and diversity; and key topics in psychopathology, such as delusion, autism, disorders of volition, thought insertion and other experiences in schizophrenia. The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry aims to secure the skills-base of the discipline by bringing philosophers closer to the realities of practice in mental health, and mental health practitioners closer to the resources of philosophy as a partner to the sciences in responding to the challenges of twenty-first century mental health and social care.

Introduction
Origins, outcomes and how to use this book
PART I - CORE CONCEPTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND MENTAL HEALTH
1. Philosophical problems in mental health practice and research
2. Arguments good and bad: an introduction to philosophical logic for practitioners
3. Experiences good and bad: an introduction to psychopathology, classification and diagnosis for philosophers
4. Philosophical methods in mental health practice and research
5. Philosophical outputs in mental health practice and research
PART II - A PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
6. A brief history of mental disorder
7. Karl Jaspers and general psychopathology
8. Phenomenology and psychopathology
9. Psychopathology and the 'Methodenstreit'
PART III - PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH
10. Psychoanalysis: an introduction to the philosophy of science
11. Psychopathology and the theory dependence of data
12. Natural classifications, realism and psychopathology
13. Diagnosis, explanation and causal information
14. Causes, laws and reasons in psychiatric aetiology
15. Knowledge, research and evidence-based medicine
PART IV - VALUES, ETHICS AND MENTAL HEALTH
16. Tools of the trade: an introduction to psychiatric ethics
17. From bioethics to values-based practice
18. It's the law!
Rationality and consent as a case study in mental health law
19. Values in psychiatric diagnosis
20. From bioethics to values-based practice in psychiatric diagnosis
PART V - PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND MENTAL HEALTH
21. Mind, brain and mental illness: an introduction to the philosophy of mind
22. The mind-body problem and mental health, a philosophical update
23. Reasons and the content of mental states: Part I - reductionist theories
24. Reasons and the content of mental states: Part II - Anti-reductionism and discursive psychology
25. Agency, causation and freedom
26. Knowledge of other minds
27. Personal identity and schizophrenia
Appendices