Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield''s influential view of mental disorder as "harmful dysfunction," with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.

One of the most pressing theoretical problems of psychiatry is the definition of mental disorder. Jerome Wakefield''s proposal that mental disorder is "harmful dysfunction" has been both influential and widely debated; philosophers have been notably skeptical about itThis volume provides the first book-length collection of responses by philosophers to Wakefield''s harmful dysfunction analysis (HDA), offering a survey of philosophical critiques as well as extensive and detailed replies by Wakefield himself.


Format Inbunden Omfång 624 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag MIT Press Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2021-02-16 ISBN 9780262045643