The diseased embodied mind: constructing a conception of mental disease in relation to the person.

The diseased embodied mind: constructing a conception of mental disease in relation to the person.

Aultman Julie M

Medicine, health care, and philosophy

2010

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Without a better understanding of mental disease, patients diagnosed with a mental disease may be mistreated clinically and/or socially, and caregivers and families may be wrongfully blamed for causing the disease and/or for not effectively helping and developing meaningful relationships with the patient as person. In trying to understand mental disease and why its various dimensions raise difficulties for our systems of classification and our medical models of diagnosis and treatment, a framework is required. This framework will connect metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical considerations in ways that are mutually supportive and illuminating. This, in turn, will benefit those who are diseased and those persons who study, classify, diagnose, and treat disease.

*Mental Disorders/classification; *Mind-Body Relations; *Personhood; *Philosophy; Autistic Disorder; Humans; Individuality; Medical; Mental Disorders – Classification; Mental Processes; Metaphysical; Philosophy; Psychiatry – Ethical Issues; Psychiatry/*ethics

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