Christian Perring - Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Philosophical Perspectives

Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry

Series editors: Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford, Katherine Morris, John Z. Sadler, and Giovanni Stanghellini

Volumes in the series:

Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing, 19271960
Beveridge

Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder 2e
Bolton and Hill

What is Mental Disorder?
Bolton

Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
Bortolotti

Postpsychiatry
Bracken and Thomas

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind
Brakel

Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis
Brakel

Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience
Broome and Bortolotti (eds.)

Free Will and Responsibility: A Guide for Practitioners
Callender

Reconceiving Schizophrenia
Chung, Fulford, and Graham (eds.)

Darwin and Psychiatry
De Block and Adriaens (eds.)

Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Fulford, Davies, Gipps, Graham, Sadler, Stanghellini, and Thornton (eds.)

Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry
Fulford, Morris, Sadler, and Stanghellini (eds.)

Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Fulford, Thornton, and Graham (eds.)

The Mind and its Discontents
Gillett

Thinking Through Dementia
Hughes

Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Hughes, Louw, and Sabat (eds.)

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects
Jopling

Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry II: Nosology
Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas

Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice
Lock and Strong (eds.)

Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self
Lysaker and Lysaker

Responsibility and Psychopathy
Malatesti and McMillan

Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds
Matthews

Rationality and Compulsion: Applying action theory to psychiatry
Nordenfelt

Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Perring and Wells (eds.)

Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry
Phillips (ed.)

The Metaphor of Mental Illness
Pickering

Mapping the Edges and the In-between
Potter

Trauma, Truth, and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships
Potter (ed.)

The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion
Radden

The Virtuous Psychiatrist
Radden and Sadler

Addiction and Weakness of Will
Radoilska

Autonomy and Mental Disorder
Radoilska (ed.)

Feelings of Being
Ratcliffe

Recovery of People with Mental Illness: Philosophical and Related Perspectives
Rudnick (ed.)

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
Sadler

Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The Psychopathology of Common Sense
Stanghellini

One Century of Karl Jaspers General Psychopathology
Stanghellini and Fuchs (eds.)

Emotions and Personhood
Stanghellini and Rosfort

Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry
Thornton

Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry
Widdershoven, McMillan, Hope, and Van der Scheer (eds.)

The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory
Woods

Philosophical Perspectives

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Christian Perring and Lloyd A. Wells

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I dedicate my work in this book to the memory of my father,
Wyndham Perring, and to my mother, Odile Whicheloe.
Christian Perring

My portion of this book is dedicated to the memory of David
A. Mrazek, who had a vision about the future of psychiatric diagnosis
which we discussed over several years. He was the best colleague,
friend, and mentor.
Lloyd A. Wells

I would like to thank Dowling College for supporting this research.

Christian Perring

I would like to acknowledge the incredible patience of Denise M. Wells during the writing and editing of this book. Her comments on it have been wise and helpful.

Lloyd A. Wells

We are greatly in debt to Charlotte Green of Oxford University Press, who has been available daily regarding this book and has been a source of great assistance.

Christian Perring and Lloyd A. Wells

Christian Perring

The philosophical study of psychiatry has made great advances since it started to be widely studied and practiced by philosophers, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals. It has many strands, and these include not only philosophical debates in science and metaphysics, such as the scientific status of the study of the mind, and the relationship between the mind and the body, but also normative debates, such as the duties of a physician to a patient, when a patient is autonomous, and what counts as sanity. The debates have been rich, involving many different perspectives and philosophical methodologies. While there is rarely consensus on particular issues, the vigor and depth of the debates are clear indicators of how important they are. The enthusiasm with which excellent philosophical work has been done shows that the topics are not just socially important but also intellectually rewarding.