Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds: Treating the 'Whole' Person in Psychiatry

How should we deal with mental disorder - as an illness like diabetes or bronchitis, as a problem in living, or something else? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their philosophical roots, examining the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and the nature and aims of scientific medicine. The controversy over the nature of mental disorder and the appropriateness of the medical model is not just an abstract theoretical debate: it has a bearing on very…