Main description:

This book presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry that is based on a justified epistemological position, which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding. Psychiatry as a medical specialism was constructed in the nineteenth century through the interplay of both the natural sciences and the human/social sciences. This interplay has created a hybrid discipline that spans biological and socio-cultural-historical domains, which has raised challenges for its understanding and research. This book focuses on one of the principal challenges - how can we explore mental symptoms and mental disorders as complexes of neurobiology on the one hand and meaning on the other?

The chapters in this book, dedicated to German E Berrios, founder of the Cambridge school of psychopathology, tackles distinctive aspects of psychopathology or related areas. By means of a combination of approaches, chapters seek to unfold another element in our understanding of this field as well as raise new directions for its further study.

Rethinking Psychopathology is a valuable resource for clinical psychologists and psychotherapists, psychological researchers, historians of psychology, cultural psychologists, critical psychologists, social scientists, philosophers of psychology, and philosophers of science.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Ivana S Markova and Eric Chen

Section I: Personal

Chapter 2: The academic beginnings of German Berrios at the 'Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos'

Jeff Huarcaya-Victoria

Chapter 3: Experiences of working under German Berrios

Augusto Castagnini

Chapter 4: From neuropsychiatry to social cognition: a journey with Berrios

A. Garcia Caballero and I. Garcia Lado

Chapter 5: Conceptual histories in psychiatry, perspectives across time, language and culture in the work of German Berrios

Kenneth C Kirkby

Section II: Epistemological

Chapter 6: Critique of psychopathological reason. The work of G.E. Berrios

Filiberto Fuentenebro and Luis M Chiva

Chapter 7: What is psychiatry?

Ivana S Markova

Chapter 8: Recovering the context in psychopathology

Eric Chen

Chapter 9: Stress and distress in psychopathology: a conceptual analysis

Sergio E Starkstein

Chapter 10: Cultural configurators and the formation of mental symptoms

Rogelio Luque and Jose M Villagran

Chapter 11: Psychogenesis: conceptual analysis

Jose M Villagran and Rogelio Luque

Chapter 12: Supervenience and the mind-body problem in psychiatry

Hiroshi Ihara

Section III: Historical

Chapter 13: At the origins of hermeneutic psychopathology

Massimiliano Aragona

Chapter 14: The discontents of psychiatry: what can the history of psychiatry and values-based medicine contribute to resolving them?

Robert Dudas

Chapter 15: The origins of psychiatric epidemiology in Chile in the 20th century, as a tool for community action: an historical analysis

Ruben Alvarado and Leonel Valdivia

Chapter 16: The evolution of Portuguese psychiatry in the first decades of the twentieth century

Jose Morgado Pereira

Chapter 17: Recalibrating the work of Juan Valverde de Amusco in the sixteenth century anatomical revolution

Luis Jesus Fernandez Rodriguez

Chapter 18: August Wimmer's concept: psychogenic psychoses - a source-critical study

Johan Schioldann

Section IV: Psychopathological

Chapter 19: Formal thought disorder in severe and enduring mental illness

Alvaro Barrera

Chapter 20: Paved with good intentions: defining traumatic stress disorders

Arieh Y Shalev

Chapter 21: Distortions of time experience and descriptive psychopathology

Jorge C Holguin Lew

Chapter 22: Visual symbology and psychopathology in Frida Kahlo's work

Maria B Quintanilla-Madero

Chapter 23: The contribution of the Cambridge school of psychopathology for the understanding of psychosomatic symptoms

Lazslo A Avila

Section V: Neuropsychiatry

Chapter 24: Researching Wilson's disease

Tom Dening

Chapter 25: Reflections on the psychopathology of acquired brain injury

Jose I Quemada