Are Mental Illnesses Diseases of the Brain?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 331-344

  Fuchs, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological psychiatry, mental illness in brain functioning; Circular causality in therapy, pluralistic understanding; Mental illness, inseparable from living organism; Mental illnesses as circular processes; Mental illnesses diseases of the brain; Mental processes, on physical behavior of living beings; Notion of circular causality of living systems; Programs in neuroscience, naturalizing consciousness; Psychiatry, systemic or ecological view of brain; Use of "brain language"

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EID: 84885488107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343359.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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