Kenneth S. Kendler - Philosophical issues in psychiatry III: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change

Series editors: Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford, Lisa Bortolotti, Matthew Broome, 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

Is evidence-based psychiatry ethical?

Gupta

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

Kendler and Parnas

Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry III

The Nature and Sources of Historical Change

Kendler and 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

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

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

Alternative Perspectives on Psychiatric Validation

DSM, ICD, RDoC, and Beyond

Zachar, Stoyanov, Aragona, and Jablensky

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The main chapters of this book began as talks given at a conference Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry III: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 911, 2013. This conference was the third in a series of Copenhagen meetings on philosophical issues in psychiatry. The conference was sponsored by the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen and the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. The conference was organized and chaired by the editors of this volume, Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D. and Josef Parnas, M.D. The conference was from the outset conceived with the view toward subsequent publication.

We express our gratitude to the University of Copenhagen for their generous funding. We also thank Mrs. Merete Lynnerup for her friendly and stoic administrative help in preparing the meeting. Neither the conference nor its published volume would have materialized without indefatigable and engaged organizational and editorial assistance of Ms. Jill Opalesky. We also thank Mrs. Clarisse Sternberg for practical help during the conference.