1: The current diagnostic manuals: aims, methods, and questions
2: The sciences on mental order/disorder and related concepts:
normality, meaning, natural and social norms
3: Mental disorder and human nature
4: Clinical definition: distress, disability and the need to
treat
5: Boundaries and terminology in flux
6: Some conclusions
Highly commended in the Mental Health Category of the BMA Book Awards 2009
Derek Bolton read philosophy at Cambridge University and completed
a doctorate subsequently published as 'An Approach to
Wittgenstein's Philosophy' in 1979. He subsequently trained in
Clinical Psychology and has worked in the Institute of Psychiatry
and Maudsley Hospital in London for many years. He is the author of
many papers in clinical and scientific psychiatry, and on
philosophical topics in psychiatry, and co-authored with Jonathan
Hill 'Mind, Meaning, and
Mental Disorder', published by Oxford University Press, 2e, 2004.
This book provides an excellent discussion and philosophical
critique of the use of the term 'mental disorder'...this book will
be useful to the inquiring mind that seeks to understand mental
disorder from a wider perspective.
*The Psychologist*
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