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Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 American Medico-Legal Traditions and Concepts of Mental Health: The Nineteenth Century
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    Chapter 2 Philosophical Reflections in the Nineteenth Century Medicolegal Discussion
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    Chapter 3 How Much Neurosis Should We Bear?
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    Chapter 4 Psychic Health, Mental Clarity, Self-Knowledge and Other Virtues
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    Chapter 5 Models and Mental Illness
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    Chapter 6 Disease Viewed as a Symbolic Category
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    Chapter 7 Health and Disease: The Holistic Approach
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    Chapter 8 A Metabletic-Philosophical Evaluation of Mental Health
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    Chapter 9 Synchronism and Therapy
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    Chapter 10 The Psychiatrist as Philosopher
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    Chapter 11 Bibliography of the Works of Erwin W. Straus
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    Chapter 12 Environments of the Mind
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    Chapter 13 Luminosity: The Unconscious in the Integrated Person
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    Chapter 14 Body, Mind, and Conditions of Novelty: Some Remarks on Leonard C. Feldstein’s Luminosity
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    Chapter 15 Motivational Disturbances and Free Will
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    Chapter 16 Towards an Understanding of Motivational Disturbance and Freedom of Action: Comments on ‘Motivational Disturbances and Free will’
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    Chapter 17 The Concept of Mental Illness: Explanation or Justification?
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    Chapter 18 Szasz on Mental Illness
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    Chapter 19 Chairman’s Remarks
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    Chapter 20 Closing Reflections
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Chapter title
The Concept of Mental Illness: Explanation or Justification?
Chapter number 17
Book title
Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives
Published by
Springer Netherlands, September 1977
DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-6909-5_17
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-156911-8, 978-9-40-156909-5
Authors

Thomas S. Szasz

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Unknown 2 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 50%
Researcher 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 1 50%
Social Sciences 1 50%