Re-Socializing Psychiatry: Critical Neuroscience and the Limits of Reductionism

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 305-330

  Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a,b   Gold, Ian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contemporary neuroscience, brain and psychiatric disorders; Ecological approaches to psychiatry; Human behavior, using multiple sets of conceptual models; Ontologies of mind; Re socializing psychiatry, and limits of reductionism; Reductionistic view of origins and nature of human behavior; Social origins of psychiatric disorder; Social world, in human functioning and experience; Successful theory of brain, explaining mental life and illness; Synergies, genetic susceptibility and urban environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866554321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343359.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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