MacKinnon Trouble in Mind

An Unorthodox Introduction to Psychiatry
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9960-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Orthodox psychiatric texts are often rich in facts, but thin in concept. Depression may be defined as a dysfunction of mood, but of what use is a mood? How can anxiety be both symptom and adaptation to stress? What links the disparate disabilities of perception and reasoning in schizophrenia? Why does the same situation push one person into drink, drugs, danger, or despair and bounce harmlessly off another?

Trouble in Mind is unorthodox because it models adaptive mental function along with mental illness to answer questions like these. From experience as a Johns Hopkins clinician, educator, and researcher, Dean F. MacKinnon offers a unique perspective on the nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and self-destruction. He shows what mental illness can teach about the mind, from molecules to memory to motivation to meaning.

MacKinnon’s fascinating model of the mind as a vital function will enlighten anyone intrigued by the mysteries of thought, feeling, and behavior. Clinicians in training will especially appreciate the way mental illness can illuminate normal mental processes, as medical illness in general teaches about normal body functions. For students, the book also includes useful guides to psychiatric assessment and diagnosis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacKinnon, Dean F.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Organic Mind
1.1. Why Mind Matters
1.2. A Brain Primer
1.3. Summary: Organic Mind
2. Elementary Mind
2.1. Not Shaken, Stirred: Inappropriate Arousal
2.2. Sate Ain't So: Immoderate Appetites
2.3. Sense Insensibility: Misperceptions
2.4. Nominal Anomaly: Confounded Cognition
2.5. Inaction in Action: Motion Sickness
2.6. Order Disorder: Dysregulated Actions
2.7. Summary: Elementary Mind
3. Integral Mind
3.1. Off -Track Vetting: Disrupted Attention
3.2. Forget-Me-Not, Not: Faulty Memory
3.3. Stark, Craving Mad: Bad Habits
3.4. Executive Bummery: Value Misjudgment
3.5. You Can't Always Want What You Get: Emotional Miscue
3.6. Displeasure Principle: Displaced Desire
3.7. Fear Factory: Hyperactive Alarm
3.8. Summary: Integral Mind
4. Synthetic Mind
4.1. Leaning Disability: Unbalanced Bias
4.2. Veer Goggles: Personality Non Grata
4.3. Cardinal Knowledge: Beyond Belief
4.4. No Thyself: Misshapen Identity
4.5. Quid Pro Woe: Cooperative Contretemps
4.6. Piece of Mind: Communicatino Breakdown
4.7. Social Insecurity: Dissaffiliation
4.8. Complain Speaking: Help-Seeking Misbehavior
4.9. Summary: Synthetic Mind
5. Psychiatric Mind
5.1. Psychiatry Rebuilt
5.2. Mending Mentation
5.3. Summary: Psychiatric Mind
Appendix A: The Official Version: A Guided Tour of the DSM
Appendix B: The Novice's Guide to Psychiatric Assessment
Glossary
References
Additional Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

MacKinnon, Dean F.
Dean F. MacKinnon, MD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he specializes in treatment-resistant mood disorders. He is the author of Trouble in Mind: An Unorthodox Introduction to Psychiatry.

Dean F. MacKinnon, M.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.