Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder

<p>This book presents an integrative dualist model of mental disorder for psychiatry as a counter to the so-called biomedical approach that dominates the field today. Starting with the humanist concept that mental disorder is real it uses a computational approach to build a genuinely bio-psycho-social model. This shows that mental disorder is primarily psychological in nature not biological. </p><p>The historical background extends as far as Descartes and proceeds via some of the revolutionary thinkers who have shaped modern society. In particular it builds on the work of George Boole Alan Turing and Claude Shannon to construct a radically new concept of the mind as a real informational space which for better off for worse can malfunction. It extends this idea to build models of personality of personality disorder and then of mental disorder. Finally the concepts are tested against a variety of themes from other fields to show its generality. </p><p>Based in the philosophy of science and of mind this work represents a radical departure from anything in the history of psychiatry. Its purpose is to provide a formal articulated model of mental disorder to fill the theoretical void at the core of modern psychiatry. This book is written for medical students and recent graduates for psychiatrists psychologists social workers and broadly anybody with an interest in human affairs such as philosophy politics and other related fields.</p>