Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? - Anneli Jefferson

Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?

Buch | Hardcover
100 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-42138-0 (ISBN)
62,30 inkl. MwSt
Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? brings philosophical clarity to this important question and will be of interest to students and researchers in the philosophies of mind and psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, and conceptual issues in mental health.
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology and philosophy of mind and psychology. While recent work in neuroscience frequently tries to identify underlying brain dysfunction in mental disorders, detractors argue that labelling mental disorders as brain disorders is reductive and can result in harmful social effects.

This book brings a much-needed philosophical perspective to bear on this important question. Anneli Jefferson argues that while there is widespread agreement on paradigmatic cases of brain disorder such as brain cancer, Parkinson's or Alzheimer’s dementia, there is far less clarity on what the general, defining characteristics of brain disorders are. She identifies influential notions of brain disorder and shows why these are problematic. On her own, alternative, account, what counts as dysfunctional at the level of the brain frequently depends on what counts as dysfunctional at the psychological level. On this notion of brain disorder, she argues, many of the consequences people often associate with the brain disorder label do not follow. She also explores the important practical question of how to deal with the fact that many people do draw unlicensed inferences about treatment, personal responsibility or etiology from the information that a condition is a brain disorder or involves brain dysfunction.

Anneli Jefferson is Lecturer in Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK. Her main research areas are moral philosophy and philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. She is especially interested in the intersection of these areas, for example in questions relating to moral psychology or the relationship between mental illness and moral responsibility.

1. Introduction, 2. Brain disorders – The narrow view, 3. A workable notion of brain dysfunction, 4. Objections and clarifications, 5. Implications for agency and responsibility, 6. Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Focus on Philosophy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 120 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 0-367-42138-0 / 0367421380
ISBN-13 978-0-367-42138-0 / 9780367421380
Zustand Neuware
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