Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research

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Jeffrey Poland Serife Tekin

Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry

Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research

Jeffrey Poland, Serife Tekin

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MIT Press
30 April 2024

Humanities; Criminal or forensic psychology

Series: Philosophical Psychopathology

"Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.

Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.

Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the center of these controversies is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which-especially after the publication of DSM-5-many have found seriously flawed as a guide for research. This book addresses the crisis and the associated ""extraordinary science"" (Thomas Kuhn's term for scientific research during a state of crisis) from the perspective of philosophy of science. The goal is to help reconcile the competing claims of science and phenomenology within psychiatry and to offer new insights for the philosophy of science.

The contributors discuss the epistemological origins of the current crisis, the nature of evidence in psychiatric research, and the National Institute for Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria project. They consider particular research practices in psychiatry-computational, personalized, mechanistic, and user-led-and the specific categories of schizophrenia, depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder. Finally, they examine the DSM's dubious practice of pathologizing normality.

Contributors

Richard P. Bentall, John Bickle, Robyn Bluhm, Rachel Cooper, Kelso Cratsley, Owen Flanagan, Michael Frank, George Graham, Ginger A. Hoffman, Harold Kincaid, Aaron Kostko, Edouard Machery, Jeffrey Poland, Claire Pouncey, Şerife Tekin, Peter Zachar"

Edited by: Jeffrey Poland, Serife Tekin
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262551915
ISBN 10: 0262551918
Series: Philosophical Psychopathology
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeffrey Poland is Visiting Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Brown University and a Senior Lecturer in History, Philosophy, and Social Science at Rhode Island School of Design. He is the coeditor of Addiction and Responsibility (MIT Press). Şerife Tekin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Daemen College, Amherst, New York.