Towards A Pre-Modern Psychiatry

1. Front Matter

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2. An Outline of the Problem

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3. Why MacIntyre’s Philosophy Can Address This Situation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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10. Psychiatry as a Nurturing Practice

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11. Conclusions

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12. Back Matter

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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.

• Aristotle
• philosophy
• psychiatry
• psychotherapy

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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