Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder: The Biocognitive Model for Psychiatry

Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder: The Biocognitive Model for Psychiatry 2021 Original PDF

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AUTHORS: Niall McLaren
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Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder: The Biocognitive Model for Psychiatry 2021 Original PDF

This book presents an integrative, dualist model of mental disorder for psychiatry, as a counter to the so-called “biomedical” approach that dominates the field today. Starting with the humanist concept that mental disorder is real, it uses a computational approach to build a genuinely bio-psycho-social model. This shows that mental disorder is primarily psychological in nature, not biological.

The historical background extends as far as Descartes, and proceeds via some of the revolutionary thinkers who have shaped modern society. In particular, it builds on the work of George Boole, Alan Turing and Claude Shannon to construct a radically new concept of the mind as a real, informational space which, for better off for worse, can malfunction.

Based in the philosophy of science and of mind, this work represents a radical departure from anything in the history of psychiatry. Its purpose is to provide a formal, articulated model of mental disorder to fill the theoretical void at the core of modern psychiatry.

AUTHORS: Niall McLaren

PAGES: 192

YEAR: 2021

PUBLICATION: Routledge

LANGUAGE: English

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