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Philosophy and Psychopathology

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For at least two and a half thousand years, philosophers have thought about the mind and its functions. If we are to say anything reasonable about disorders of the mind and its functions, we cannot disregard philosophy.

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    Manfred Spitzer M.D., Ph.D. (Visiting Associate Professor) & Brendan A. Maher Ph.D. (Edward C. Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality) (Visiting Associate Professor) &  (Edward C. Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality)

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Spitzer, M. (1990). Why Philosophy?. In: Spitzer, M., Maher, B.A. (eds) Philosophy and Psychopathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9028-2_1

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