Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area ever published. It assembles challenging and insightful contributions from key philosophers and others to the interactive fields of philosophy and psychiatry. Each contributions is original, stimulating, thorough, and clearly and engagingly written - with no potentially significant philosophical stone left unturned. Broad in scope, the book includes coverage of several areas of philosophy, including philosophy of mind, science, and ethics. For philosophers and psychiatrists, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry is a landmark publication in the field - one that will be of value to both students and researchers in this rapidly growing area.

• 1: The Next Hundred Years: Watching our Ps and Q
• Section One: History
• 2: Introduction
• 3: Daniel Robinson: The insanity defense as a history of mental disorder
• 4: Terence Irwin: Mental health as moral virtue: some ancient arguments
• 5: Edward Harcourt: Aristotle, Plato and the Anti-Psychiatrists: Comment on Irwin
• 6: Katherine Arens: Wilhelm Griesinger: Philosophy as origin of a new psychiatry
• 7: Christoph Mundt: The Philosophical Roots of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology
• 8: Federico Leoni: From Madness to Mental Illness: Psychiatry and Biopolitics in Michel Foucault
• 9: 1. Jennifer Radden and Somogy Varga: The epistemological value of depression memoirs: a meta-analysis
• Section Two: Contexts of Care
• 10: Introduction
• 11: Pat Bracken and Philip Thomas: Challenges to the Modernist Identity of Psychiatry: User Empowerment and Recovery
• 12: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat: Race and gender in philosophy of psychiatry: science, relativism and phenomenology
• 13: Louis C. Charland: Why Psychiatry Should Fear Medicalization
• 14: James Phillips: Technology And Psychiatry
• 15: Larry Davidson: Cure and Recovery
• Section Three: Establishing Relationships
• 16: Introduction
• 17: Thor Grünbaum and Dan Zahavi: Varieties of Self-Awareness
• 18: Daniel D. Hutto: Interpersonal Relating
• 19: Shaun Gallagher: Intersubjectivity and psychopathology
• 20: Anita Avramides: Other Minds, Autism, and Depth in Human Interaction
• 21: Nancy Nyquist Potter: Empathic foundations of clinical knowledge
• 22: Grant Gillett and Rom Harré: Discourse and diseases of the psyche
• 23: Giovanni Stanghellini: Philosophical Resources for the Psychiatric Interview
• Section Four: Summoning Concepts
• 24: Introduction
• 25: Elselijn Kingma: Naturalistic Accounts of Mental Disorder
• 26: KWM Fulford and CW van Staden: Values-based practice: topsy-turvy take home messages from ordinary language philosophy (and a few next steps)
• 27: Kelso Cratsley and Richard Samuels: Cognitive Science and Explanations of Psychopathology
• 28: Derek Bolton: What is Mental Illness?
• 29: John Z. Sadler: Vice and Mental Disorders
• 30: Lisa Bortolotti: Rationality and Sanity: The role of rationality judgements in understanding psychiatric disorders
• 31: Jennifer Church: Boundary Problems: Negotiating the Challenges of Responsibility and Loss
• 32: George Graham: Ordering Disorder: Mental disorder, brain disorder, and therapeutic Intervention
• 33: Eric Matthews: Mental Disorder: Can Merleau-Ponty take us beyond the "Mind-Brain" problem?
• Section Five: Descriptive Psychopathology
• 34: Introduction
• 35: Gerrit Glas: Anxiety and phobias: Phenomenologies, concepts, explanations
• 36: Matthew Ratcliffe: Depression and the phenomenology of free will
• 37: Katherine J. Morris: Body image disorders
• 38: Thomas Fuchs: The phenomenology of affectivity
• 39: Louis Sass and Elizabeth Pienkos: Delusion: The phenomenological approach
• 40: Johannes Roessler: Thought insertion, self-awareness, and rationality
• 41: Tim Bayne: The disunity of consciousness in psychiatric disorders
• 42: Martin Davies and Andy Egan: Delusion: Cognitive approaches - Bayesian inference and compartmentalization
• Section Six: Assessment and Diagnostic Categories
• 43: Introduction
• 44: Jeffrey Poland and Barbara Von Eckardt: Mapping the Domain of Mental Illness
• 45: John Z. Sadler: Values in psychiatric diagnosis and classification
• 46: Matthew Broome, Paolo Fusar-Poli, and Philippe Wuyts: Conceptual and ethical issues in the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis
• 47: S. Nassir Ghaemi: Understanding Mania and Depression
• 48: R. Peter Hobson: Autism and the Philosophy of Mind
• 49: Julian C. Hughes: Dementia is dead, long live ageing: Philosophy and practice in connection with "dementia"
• 50: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Hanna Pickard: What is Addiction?
• 51: Owen Flanagan: Identity and Addiction: What alcoholic memoirs teach
• 52: Peter Zachar and Robert F. Krueger: Personality Disorder and Validity: A History of Controversy
• 53: Stephen R.L. Clark: Personal Identity and Identity Disorders
• Section Seven: Explanation and Understanding
• 54: Introduction
• 55: John Campbell: Causation and Mechanisms in Psychiatry
• 56: Rachel Cooper: Natural Kinds
• 57: Dominic Murphy: The Medical Model and the Philosophy of Science
• 58: Nick Haslam: Reliability, Validity, and the Mixed Blessings of Operationalism
• 59: Kenneth F. Schaffner: Reduction and Reductionism in Psychiatry
• 60: Michael A. Bishop and J.D. Trout: Diagnostic Prediction and Prognosis: Getting from Symptom to Treatment
• 61: Tim Thornton: Clinical judgment, tacit knowledge and recognition in psychiatric diagnosis
• 62: Nicholas Shea: Neural Mechanisms of Decision Making and the Personal Level
• 63: Giovanna Colombetti: Psychopathology and the Enactive Mind
• 64: Michael Lacewing: Could psychoanalysis be a science?
• Section Eight: Cure and Care
• 65: Introduction
• 66: Hanna Pickard: Responsibility without Blame: Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Practice
• 67: Lubomira Radoilska: Depression, Decisional Capacity, and Personal Autonomy
• 68: Fredrik Svenaeus: Psychopharmacology and the Self
• 69: Bennett Foddy, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu: Practical neuropsychiatric Ethics
• 70: David A. Jopling: Placebo Effects in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• 71: Richard Askay and Jensen Farquhar: Being Unconscious: Heidegger and Freud
• 72: Richard Gipps: Assumptions behind CBT: a philosophical appraisal
• 73: Jim Hopkins: Understanding and Healing: Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Era of Neuroscience