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Trouble in Mind: An Unorthodox Introduction to Psychiatry
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Trouble in Mind is unorthodox because it models adaptive mental function along with mental illness to answer questions like these. From experience as a Johns Hopkins clinician, educator, and researcher, Dean F. MacKinnon offers a unique perspective on the nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and self-destruction. He shows what mental illness can teach about the mind, from molecules to memory to motivation to meaning.
MacKinnon’s fascinating model of the mind as a vital function will enlighten anyone intrigued by the mysteries of thought, feeling, and behavior. Clinicians in training will especially appreciate the way mental illness can illuminate normal mental processes, as medical illness in general teaches about normal body functions. For students, the book also includes useful guides to psychiatric assessment and diagnosis.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780801898068 |
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Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Publication date: | 01/15/2011 |
Series: | SMW Productions |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Organic Mind1.1. Why Mind Matters1.2. A Brain Primer1.3. Summary: Organic Mind2. Elementary Mind2.1. Not Shaken, Stirred: Inappropriate Arousal2.2. Sate Ain't So: Immoderate Appetites2.3. Sense Insensibility: Misperceptions2.4. Nominal Anomaly: Confounded Cognition2.5. Inaction in Action: Motion Sickness2.6. Order Disorder: Dysregulated Actions2.7. Summary: Elementary Mind3. Integral Mind3.1. Off -Track Vetting: Disrupted Attention3.2. Forget-Me-Not, Not: Faulty Memory3.3. Stark, Craving Mad: Bad Habits3.4. Executive Bummery: Value Misjudgment3.5. You Can't Always Want What You Get: Emotional Miscue3.6. Displeasure Principle: Displaced Desire3.7. Fear Factory: Hyperactive Alarm3.8. Summary: Integral Mind4. Synthetic Mind4.1. Leaning Disability: Unbalanced Bias4.2. Veer Goggles: Personality Non Grata4.3. Cardinal Knowledge: Beyond Belief4.4. No Thyself: Misshapen Identity4.5. Quid Pro Woe: Cooperative Contretemps4.6. Piece of Mind: Communicatino Breakdown4.7. Social Insecurity: Dissaffiliation4.8. Complain Speaking: Help-Seeking Misbehavior4.9. Summary: Synthetic Mind5. Psychiatric Mind5.1. Psychiatry Rebuilt5.2. Mending Mentation5.3. Summary: Psychiatric MindAppendix A: The Official Version: A Guided Tour of the DSMAppendix B: The Novice's Guide to Psychiatric AssessmentGlossaryReferencesAdditional ReadingIndexWhat People are Saying About This
Dr. MacKinnon's thoughtful and provocative book begins with the premise that 'psychiatry has no coherent concept of mind' and that the orthodox approach to psychiatric diagnosis neglects the nature of mind and mental illness. As an alternative to the superficial symptom checklists of the DSMs, MacKinnon provides a richly detailed model for understanding both our mental life and its breakdown in various forms of mental illness. By conceptualizing 'mind' as a function of brain, MacKinnon is able to present a compelling and systematic account of our mental life, in both health and disease. He gives due weight to both biological and humanistic modes of explaining psychiatric illness, and his book will greatly enrich the understanding of trainees and seasoned clinicians alike.
Dean MacKinnon has written an ambitious book for psychiatrists and psychologists, and indeed for the interested general reader. Most texts that address normal brain function keep it compartmentalized in separate chapters (often written by separate authors) from theories of psychopathology. Such texts almost never take on the risky project of connecting neurobiology with concepts of mind. MacKinnon has made rich connections that will fire the imagination of clinicians, giving them a way to situate human experience in the function and malfunction of our brains.
Steven Hyman, M.D., Provost, Harvard University, Former Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Dean MacKinnon has written an ambitious book for psychiatrists and psychologists, and indeed for the interested general reader. Most texts that address normal brain function keep it compartmentalized in separate chapters (often written by separate authors) from theories of psychopathology. Such texts almost never take on the risky project of connecting neurobiology with concepts of mind. MacKinnon has made rich connections that will fire the imagination of clinicians, giving them a way to situate human experience in the function and malfunction of our brains.—Steven Hyman, M.D., Provost, Harvard University, Former Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Dr. MacKinnon's thoughtful and provocative book begins with the premise that 'psychiatry has no coherent concept of mind' and that the orthodox approach to psychiatric diagnosis neglects the nature of mind and mental illness. As an alternative to the superficial symptom checklists of the DSMs, MacKinnon provides a richly detailed model for understanding both our mental life and its breakdown in various forms of mental illness. By conceptualizing 'mind' as a function of brain, MacKinnon is able to present a compelling and systematic account of our mental life, in both health and disease. He gives due weight to both biological and humanistic modes of explaining psychiatric illness, and his book will greatly enrich the understanding of trainees and seasoned clinicians alike.—Ronald Pies, M.D., SUNY Upstate Medical University, Tufts University School of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Psychiatric Times