Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 October 2008
- ISBN 9780199207428
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 232x156x17 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Technology has had, and will continue to have, a major effect on the field of psychiatry - in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In a collection of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters, this book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made.
MoreLong description:
Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is of course true of medicine. Many of us owe our existence and our continued vigour to some achievement of medical technology. And what is true in a major way of general medicine is to a significant degree true of psychiatry. Prozac has long since arrived, and in its wake an ever-growing armamentarium of new psychotropics; beyond that, neuroscience promises ever more technological advances for the field.
However, the effect of technology on the field of psychiatry remains highly ambiguous. On the one hand there are the achievements, both in the science and practice of psychiatry; on the other hand technology's influence on the field threatens its identity as a humanistic practice. In this ambiguity psychiatry is not unique - major thinkers have for a long time been highly ambivalent and concerned about the technological order that now defines modern society. For the future, the danger is that the psychiatrically real becomes that which can be seen, the symptom, and especially that which can be measured. Disorders and treatments might become reduced to what can be defined by diagnostic criteria and what can be mapped out on a scale.
This book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made. It includes a range of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters from a range of psychiatrists and philosophers.
Anyone who is interested in this area will enjoy and learn much from this book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1 - Technical Reason in Psychiatry
the instrument metaphor, hyponarrativity, and the generic physician
Technoloigcal rationality in psychiatry: immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternative
Technological reason and regulation of emotion
Part 2 - Critical Approaches to TEchnology in Psychiatry
Technology, aesthetic explanation, and psychoanalysis
Focusing the lenses of feminist theories to reflect on technology and psychiatry
The critical theory of psychopharmacology: the work of David Healy and beyond
Towards a post-technological information theory
Part 3 - Technology and Psychiatric Disorders
Technology and mental disorders: a clinical probe into the differential impact on individuals
Frontal fatigue: how technology may contribute to mental illness
Bored to tears? Depression and Heideggr's concepts of profound boredom: a postpsychiatry contribution
Part 4 - Technological Instruments
Psychiatric rehabilitation and the notion of technology in psychiatry
Drugs, not hugs: antidepressant medication trials and suicidality in children - a case history in the philosophy of science as an argument for the neeed for improved technology in psychiatry
Philosophical considerations of an internet-enabled telephone and computer psychiatric symptom monitoring system: maintaining thebalance between subjectivity and objectivity in research
The assessment of emotional awareness: can technology make a contribution?
Part 5 - Ethical Issues in Technology and Psychiatry
Thinking about the repair manual: technique and technology in psychiatry
Beyond repugnance: human enhancement and the President's Council on Bioethics
The reflectively anxious and depressed; psychotropics and lives worth living
