{"product_id":"healing-psychiatry-bridging-the-sciencehumanism-divide-basic-bioethics-9780262025942","title":"Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science\/humanism Divide (Basic Bioethics)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePsychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain functioning or primarily an art of understanding the human mind in its social and cultural context? Competing conceptions of mental illness as amenable to scientific explanation or as deeply complex and beyond the reach of empirical study have left the field conceptually divided between science and humanism. In Healing Psychiatry David Brendel takes a novel approach to this stubborn problem. Drawing on the classical American pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce  William James  and John Dewey  as well as contemporary work of pragmatic bioethicists  Brendel proposes a \"clinical pragmatism\" that synthesizes scientific and humanistic approaches to mental health care. Psychiatry  he argues  must integrate scientific and humanistic models by emphasizing the practical  pluralistic  participatory  and provisional aspects of clinical diagnosis and treatment. Psychiatrists need to have the skill and flexibility to use scientific and humanistic approaches in a collaborative  open-ended clinical process; they must recognize the complexity of human suffering even as they strive for scientific rigor. This is the only way  he writes  that psychiatry can heal its conceptual rift and the emotional wounds of its patients.  Healing Psychiatry explores these issues from both clinical and theoretical standpoints and uses case histories to support its basic argument. Brendel calls for an open-minded and flexible yet scientifically informed approach to understanding  diagnosing  and treating mental disorders. And he considers the future of psychiatry  applying the principles of clinical pragmatism to a broad range of ethical concerns in psychiatric training and research.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923529596981,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262025949","price":91.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262025942.jpg?v=1794106724","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/healing-psychiatry-bridging-the-sciencehumanism-divide-basic-bioethics-9780262025942","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}