The concepts of psychiatry [electronic resource] : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness / S. Nassir Ghaemi.

The status quo: dogmatism, the biopsychosocial model, and alternatives
What there is: of mind and brain
How we know: understanding the mind
What is scientific method?
Reading Karl Jaspers's General psychopathology
What is scientific method in psychiatry?
Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy
What we value: the ethics of psychiatry
Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches
On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth?
Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology
A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types
Dimensions versus categories
The perils of belief: psychosis
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression
Life's rollercoaster: mania
Being self-aware: insight
Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism?
Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry
A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis
Being there: existential psychotherapy
Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology
Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism
Why it is hard to be pluralist.