In  Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone is said to have a mental illness, what about it is mental? What makes it an illness? How might we explain and classify it? A system of psychiatric classification settles these questions by distinguishing the mental illnesses and showing how they stand in relation to one another. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by the project of explaining and classifying mental illness. Murphy argues that the current literature on mental illness--exemplified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--is an impediment to research; it lacks a coherent concept of the mental and a satisfactory account of disorder, and yields too much authority to commonsense thought about the mind. He argues that the explanation of mental illness should meet the standards of good explanatory practice in the cognitive neurosciences, and that the classification of mental disorders should group symptoms into conditions based on the causal structure of the normal mind.

Psychiatry in the Scientific Image (Philosophical Psychopathology: Disorders In Mind)

Politics & Social Sciences

Murphy, Dominic

Philosophy

Mit Pr

An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.
In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone is said to have a mental illness, what about it is mental? What makes it an illness? How might we explain and classify it? A system of psychiatric classification settles these questions by distinguishing the mental illnesses and showing how they stand in relation to one another. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by the project of explaining and classifying mental illness.
Murphy argues that the current literature on mental illness―exemplified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders―is an impediment to research; it lacks a coherent concept of the mental and a satisfactory account of disorder, and yields too much authority to commonsense thought about the mind. He argues that the explanation of mental illness should meet the standards of good explanatory practice in the cognitive neurosciences, and that the classification of mental disorders should group symptoms into conditions based on the causal structure of the normal mind.

Psychiatry in the Scientific Image (Philosophical Psychopathology)

Bradford Books

School gardens have surged in popularity over the last couple of years and 2010 will see an even greater momentum in school gardening activity. There are many ways in which the national curriculum can be delivered through school gardening, from science-based projects (studying the life cycle of a plant) to physical exercise (and learning about healthy eating), from English (writing exercises) to citizenship (sustainable community projects). But this book isn't just for teachers. It is also squarely aimed at the parent who wants to get more involved in their children's school. Over the course of a year, Dominic Murphy helped his local school set up a beautiful and productive garden that not only supplied the kitchen with delicious vegetables but also gave the children beautiful flowers to take home. This is the story of that year, together with a step-by-step guide to what to grow (and what to avoid). Uniquely timed to coincide with term times (so that nothing is left languishing in the school holidays), this warmly written how to should be on every parent's shelves.

The Playground Potting Shed: Gardening With Children Made Simple

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Averting justice is the worst option for anyone caught in the crosshairs of the Deacon Board. A secret organization which breeds next level men, trained to hone in so deep into their abilities, they are often mistaken as super human. For generations, the Deacon Board has met evil in the shadows and upheld the law of morality in the war between good and evil. Under the direction of God, they’ve mastered the art of reckoning problems without a trace. For criminals who continually elude the law, the Deacon Board is tactically relentless, fearfully efficient, and consistently lethal. 25 to life is better than a visit from the Deacon Board. If you find yourself on the deacon’s list, your choice is ’confess or else’. Pray you choose wisely.

The Deacon Board: Confess or Else

Literature & Fiction

Moore, Roland

Murphy, Martin

Refuge, Writers

Tyson, Barry

Action & Adventure

Moore Substance Publish

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