On the autonomy of the concept of disease in psychiatry

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Schramme, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological psychiatry; Concept of mental illness; Eliminativism; Identity theory; Kendell; Mind body problem; Reductionism; Szasz

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885351491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00457     Document Type: Article

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