Nassir Ghaemi

Concepts of Psychiatry and Psychopathology (Psychology Today: Mood Swings, #8) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this selection of posts from Psychology Today, Nassir Ghaemi discusses ideas in psychiatry, such as the harmful effects of postmodernist assumptions, and psychopathology, such as the invalidity of the concept of narcissism, and the experience of what it means to recover from psychiatric illness.

Table of Contents:

CONCEPTS OF PSYCHIATRY

The consequences of truth: Postmodernism and American psychiatry

Is it all relative?

Passion-based medicine: Science-hatred gone wild

Where are the new ideas? Observations on academia

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Suddenly I was just watching a movie

Life events and mood: What's cause? What's effect?

Narcissism: Phlogiston of psychiatry

The psychological fallacy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nassir Ghaemi
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393565697
• Artikelnr.: 58433901

Autorenporträt

S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH is a psychiatrist and author. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University and Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has published multiple academic books, including Clinical Psychopharmacology (Oxford University Press, 2019), and is author of A First-Rate Madness: Exploring the LInks between Mental Illness and Leadership (Penguin, 2011), a New York Times bestseller. He has published over 200 scientific articles, over 50 book chapters, and is a peer reviewer for many scientific journals, as well as Associate Editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Disclosure: Since 2017, Dr. Ghaemi also has been employed at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA as a director of early drug discovery research in psychiatry. The views expressed here are his alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of any of his employers.