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Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry
Edited by James Phillips
336 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-920742-8
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Paperback
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23 October 2008
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- A controversial and stimulating examination of the role and influence of technology within the field of psychiatry, looking at the pros and the cons
- Broad in its approach, showing how technology has influenced prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and the pitfalls
- Considers the ethical issues stemming from the role of technology in psychiatry
Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is of course true of medicine. Many of us owe our existence and our continued vigour to some achievement of medical technology. And what is true in a major way of general medicine is to a significant degree true of psychiatry. Prozac has long since arrived, and in its wake an ever-growing armamentarium of new psychotropics; beyond that, neuroscience promises ever more technological advances for the field.
However, the effect of technology on the field of psychiatry remains highly
ambiguous. On the one hand there are the achievements, both in the science and practice of psychiatry; on the other hand technology's influence on the field threatens its identity as a humanistic practice. In this ambiguity psychiatry is not unique - major thinkers have for a long time been highly ambivalent and concerned about the technological order that now defines modern society. For the future, the danger is that the psychiatrically real becomes that which can be seen, the symptom, and especially that which can be measured. Disorders and treatments might become reduced to what can be defined by diagnostic criteria and what can be mapped out on a scale.
This book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what
cost these developments have been made. It includes a range of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters from a range of psychiatrists and philosophers.Readership: Psychiatrist and philosphers of mind.
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Edited by James Phillips, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine Contributors:
Scott Bartlett
Michael A Cerullo, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
Louis C Charland, Dept of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London ON, Canada
Douglas W Heinrichs, Ellicott City MD, USA
Karen Iseminger, Community Cancer Care, Westfield IN, USA
Mark P Jenkins, Dept of Philosophy, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA, USA
Stuart Kaplan, Crozer Keystone, Upland PA, USA
Robert Kruger, Westport CT, USA
Donald
Mender, Rhinebeck NY, USA
James Phillips, Dept of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Douglas Porter, New Orleans LA, USA
Jennifer Radden, Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Mark D Rego, Psychiatrist, Milford CT, USA
Sue V Rosser, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
Abraham Rudnick, Regional Mental Health Care, London ON, Canada
John Sadler, Dept of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX, USA
Philip Sinaikin, Psychiatrist, New Smyrna Beach FL, USA
Dale Theobald, Psychiatrist, Indianapolis, USA
Miguel Uribe, Psychiatrist, Bogota, Columbia
Peter Zachar, Dept of
Psychology, Auburn University, Montgomery AL, USA
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"Anyone who is interested in this area will enjoy and learn much from this book." - The British Journal of Psychiatry "An interesting look at how technology has changed the practice of psychiatry and psychology... it offers significant insight" - Doody's Notes
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James Phillips: Introduction
Part 1 - Technical Reason in Psychiatry
1: John Sadler: the instrument metaphor, hyponarrativity, and the generic physician
2: Peter Zachar & Scott Bartlett: Technoloigcal rationality in psychiatry: immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternative
3: Louis C Charland: Technological reason and regulation of emotion
Part 2 - Critical Approaches to TEchnology in Psychiatry
4: Miguel Uribe: Technology, aesthetic explanation, and psychoanalysis
5: Sue V Rosser: Focusing the lenses of feminist theories to reflect on technology and psychiatry
6: Douglas Porter: The critical theory of psychopharmacology: the work of David Healy and beyond
7: Donald Mender: Towards a post-technological information theory
Part 3 - Technology and Psychiatric Disorders
8: Douglas W Heinrichs: Technology and mental disorders: a clinical probe into the differential impact on individuals
9: Mark D Rego: Frontal fatigue: how technology may contribute to mental illness
10: Philip Sinaikin: Bored to tears? Depression and Heideggr's concepts of profound boredom: a postpsychiatry contribution
Part 4 - Technological Instruments
11: Abraham Rudnick: Psychiatric rehabilitation and the notion of technology in psychiatry
12: Stuart Kaplan: Drugs, not hugs: antidepressant medication trials and suicidality in children - a case history in the philosophy of science as an argument for the neeed for improved technology in psychiatry
13: Karen Iseminger & Dale Theobald: Philosophical considerations of an internet-enabled telephone and computer psychiatric symptom monitoring system: maintaining thebalance between subjectivity and objectivity in research
14: Robert Kruger: The assessment of emotional awareness: can technology make a contribution?
Part 5 - Ethical Issues in Technology and Psychiatry
15: Jennifer Radden: Thinking about the repair manual: technique and technology in psychiatry
16: Michael A Cerullo: Beyond repugnance: human enhancement and the President's Council on Bioethics
17: Mark P Jenkins: The reflectively anxious and depressed; psychotropics and lives worth living
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