Humanizing Psychiatry:The Biocognitive Model电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Acclaim for the writing of Niall McLaren, M.D.

Table of Figures

Introduction

I-1. The Gathering Crisis in Psychiatry

I-2. Summary of Part I: The End of Biological Psychiatry

I-3. Summary of Part II: A Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem for Psychiatry

I-4. Summary of Part III: The Future of Psychiatry

I-5. A Note of Thanks

Part I: Restricting the Scope of Biological Psychiatry

Chapter 1 – Defining Limits to Biological Reductionism

1-1. Introduction

1-2. Psychiatry and the Prizewinners

1-3. Psychiatry and Biology

1-4. Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

1-5. Psychiatry and Reductionism

1-6. The Limits to Reductionism

1-7. Saving Reductionism?

1-8. Conclusion: A Post-Reductionist Psychiatry

Chapter 2 – Turing Computability and the Brain

2-1. Introduction

2-2. Turing's Universal Computing Machine

2-3. The Brain as a Collection of Turing Machines

2-3. Mens Insana In Sana Corpore

2-4. Conclusion

Chapter 3 – Science and the Psychiatric Publishing Industry

3-1. Introduction

3-2. Psychiatry as a Scientific Discipline.

3-3. What Do Psychiatrists Read?

3-4. Prejudice Masquerading as a Scientific Psychiatry

3-5. Conclusion

Part II: Resolving the Mind-Body Problem for Psychiatry

Chapter 4 – The Case for a Mentalist Psychiatry

4-1: Introduction

4-2: Why Brains?

4-3: Where is the locus of control?

4-4. The nature of control: mentalism vs. non-mentalism

4-5. Conclusion

Chapter 5 – Toward a Molecular Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem for Psychiatry

5-1. Introduction

5-2. Chalmers and Property Dualism

5-3. The Tasks of a Theory Of Mind

5-4. Turing's Account of Mindless Mentation

5-5. Conclusion

Chapter 6 – Embodied Logic

6-1. Introduction

6-2. The Brain as a Logic Machine

6-3. The Mechanism of the Brain's Logic Gates

6-4. A Molecular Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem

6-5. Conclusion

Chapter 7 – The Biocognitive Model

7-1. Introduction

7-2. The Other Half of Mind

7-3. Nature vs. Nurture, Emotions vs. Rules

7-4. A Fragile Logic Machine: Confusion and Dementia

7-5. Personality in The Cognitive Model

7-6. Conclusion

Chapter 8 – Language as a Test of the Biocognitive Model

8-1. Introduction

8-2. Language Divorced from the Brain

8-3. When Mental States Communicate

8-4. How Mental States Evoke Like Mental States

8-5. How Mental States Evoke Speech

8-7. How Speech Evokes Mental States

8-8. Summary of the Model

8-9. Scope of the Model

8-10. Conclusion

Chapter 9 – The Biocognitive Model and Human Nature

9-1. Introduction

9-2. A Materialist Reality

9-3. A Human Reality

9-4. A Humanist Morality

9-5. A Theory Of Society

9-6. A Theory of Law

9-7. Conclusion

Part III: Applying the Biocognitive Model to Psychiatry

Chapter 10 – The Role of Personality

10-1. Introduction

10-2. Models of Personality?

10-3. The Biocognitive Model of Personality

10-4. Normal Personality

10-5. Abnormal Personality

Case 10-1. Mr. LJ, aged 26yrs.

Case 10-1. Discussion.

Case 10-2. Mr. AT, aged 21yrs.

Case 10-2. Discussion.

Case 10-3. Mr. BT, aged 19yrs.

Case 10-3. Discussion.

Case 10-4. Mr. MS, aged 29yrs.

Case 10-4. Discussion.

Case 10-5: Ms. PR, aged 28yrs.

Case 10-5: Discussion.

Case 10-6: Ms. MA, aged 26yrs.

Case 10-6: Discussion.

10-6: Conclusion.

Chapter 11 – Circus Vitiosus

11-1. Introduction

11-2. Homeostasis

11-3. Homeostasis Mentalis

11-4. When Stasis Fails

11-5. Conclusion

Chapter 12 – The Culture of Complacency

12-1. Introduction

12-2. How Psychiatry Fails To Qualify As Science.

12-3. Is There A Future For Psychiatry?

Epilogue

Index