Rethinking Psychopathology

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.

presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry. This is based on a justified epistemological position which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding in this field. explores mental/behavioural phenomena and mental disorders as complexes of neurobiology and socio-cultural meanings, presents a transdisciplinary approach to the study and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Contenu
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.