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A Psychiatric Dialogue on the Mind-Body Problem
Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.
(Am J Psychiatry 2001; 158:989–1000)
Of all the human professions, psychiatry is most centrally concerned with the relationship of mind and brain. In many clinical interactions, psychiatrists need toconsider both subjective mental experiences and objective aspects of brain function. This article attempts to summarize,
in the form of a dialogue between a philosophically informed attending psychiatrist and three residents, the major philosophical positions on the mind-body problem. The positions reviewed include the following: substance dualism, property dualism, type identity, token identity, functionalism, eliminative materialism, and explanatory dualism. This essay seeks to provide a brief user-friendly introduction, from a psychiatric perspective, to current thinking
http://www.speedyshare.com/470744375.html


Lost in the DSM-IV Checklist
Empathy, Meaning, and the Doctor–Patient Relationship
Allan Tasman, M.D
Academic Psychiatry, 26:1, Spring 2002
http://www.speedyshare.com/543897162.html



Toward a Philosophical Structure for Psychiatry
Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.
(Am J Psychiatry 2005; 162:433–440)
This article, which seeks to sketch a coherent conceptual and philosophical framework for psychiatry, confronts two major questions: how do mind and brain interrelate, and how can we integrate the multiple explanatory perspectives of psychiatric illness? Eight propositions are proposed and defended: 1) psychiatry is irrevocably grounded in mental, first-person experiences; 2) Cartesian substance dualism is false; 3) epiphenomenalism is false; 4) both
brain→mind and mind→brain causality are real; 5) psychiatric disorders are etiologically
complex, and no more “spirochete-like” discoveries will be made that explain their origins in simple terms; 6) explanatory pluralism is preferable to monistic explanatory approaches, especially biological reductionism; 7) psychiatry must move beyond a prescientific “battle of
paradigms” to embrace complexity and support empirically rigorous and pluralistic explanatory models; 8) psychiatry should strive for “patchy reductionism” with the goal of “piecemeal integration” in trying to explain complex etiological pathways to illness bit by bit.
http://www.speedyshare.com/577852602.html


Teaching Psychodynamic Psychiatry During Medical School and Residency
Specific Skills and Beyond
Allan Tasman, M.D.
J Psychother Pract Res, 8:3, Summer 1999
http://www.speedyshare.com/858286410.html