Sentences with phrase «theory of psychiatry»

While both men sought to implement a dynamic view of experience, Whitehead chose to focus on the microcosmic level which resulted in his philosophy of organism, whereas Sullivan devoted his efforts to the particular realm of human existence which yielded his interpersonal theory of psychiatry.

This essay attempts to make a contribution to that ongoing dialogue by corroborating some of the central features of Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal theory of psychiatry in light of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophical insights about the nature of reality.

Not exact matches

Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.

By emphasizing this three-fold approach, Sullivan's theory went well beyond Freud's by insisting that the domain of psychiatry be augmented with insights contributed from social psychology and psychobiology.

One of Sullivan's major contributions to psychiatry was to expand the theoretical parameters for discussing personality theory well beyond the limits of Freud's intrapsychic realm into the arena of interpersonal relations.

The misplaced concreteness of mind language and body language and the impossibility of interaction between domains whose very definitions preclude causal relations, become clear in the teeth of all the theories and institutions based on a dualistic ontology, e.g., psychiatry versus neurology versus psychoanalysis versus a holistic view of humanity.

Included are varied specifics such as: economic theory; psychiatry; systems analysis; the growth of bureaucracies; the science of management; the development of the democratic ideal; striving for universal education; personalism (fulfilling the earlier promise of the Enlightenment); the rise and fall of colonialism; and modem liberation movements.

The psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Jung, and others who have laid the foundation for modern psychiatry provide merely one approach to the understanding of human behavior.

«I see theory - based computational psychiatry as a long - overdue effort to finally bring to psychiatry the same rigorous mathematical tools that have so successfully shaped fields such as physics — enriched now with the capacity for computational simulations, which vastly expand the range of problems that can be addressed mathematically.»

But not since Freud's pseudoscientific theories early last century has psychiatry claimed any broad theoretical basis for making sense of our normal and abnormal feelings, thinking and social behaviours — the complexities at the heart of being human.

«The vehicle of success»: Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy and psychiatry: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice Vol 77 (2) Jun 2004, 255 - 272.

In this 2016 interview Dr. Irvin D. Yalom, professor of psychiatry emeritus at Stanford University and author of many therapy books, best known to me for his work The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, talks about why he has become a proponent of online therapy.

John Bowlby had studied child psychiatry and psychoanalysis and had the nerve to question popular theories of the day, such as those advocated by John B. Watson.

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry is interested in advancing theory, practice and clinical research in the realm of child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry and related disciplines.

Gardner is a Columbia University clinical professor of child psychiatry and he defends his theory in his 749 pages of «True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse» (1992).

[1][3] There was initially a strong influence from psychoanalysis (most of the early founders of the field had psychoanalytic backgrounds) and social psychiatry, and later from learning theory and behavior therapy - and significantly, these clinicians began to articulate various theories about the nature and functioning of the family as an entity that was more than a mere aggregation of individuals.