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Towards A Pre-Modern Psychiatry

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  1. Jenifer Booth
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. An Outline of the Problem

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 1-12

  3. Why MacIntyre’s Philosophy Can Address This Situation

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 13-44

  4. The Contemporary Aristotelian Museum as a Way of ‘Re-seeing’ Knowledge

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 45-61

  5. How ‘the Many’ Can Be Authoritative. ‘The Many’ Start to Contribute to the Practice

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 62-84

  6. MacIntyre’s Original Model Adjusted to Take Account of Patiency and Dissent

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 85-102

  7. Psychiatric Medicine: Performing Tradition-constituted Enquiry on the Tradition of the Psychiatrists

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 103-117

  8. Collective Advocacy: The Mentally Ill Start to Contribute to a Practice

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 118-127

  9. Using Irigaray’s Philosophy to Overcome the Techincal Paradigm in Psychotherapy

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 128-156

  10. Psychiatry as a Nurturing Practice

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 157-175

  11. Conclusions

    • Jenifer Booth
    Pages 176-196

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 197-221
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The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist, Alasdair MacIntyre is ideally placed to bring about a transformation of psychiatry from its current captivity to the modern scientific technical paradigm.

About the author

Jenifer Booth is an independent scholar. She has an MA in Psychiatry, Philosophy and Society from the University of Sheffield, UK an MLitt in philosophy (with distinction) from the University of Dundee and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Durham. She has worked with the mental health service user movement in Lothian.

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