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Oxford Textbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry (International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry)

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The publication of the Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry marks a step forward in the practical interaction between philosophy and medicine, especially psychiatric medicine. Through the growth of teaching in Bioethics (as well as of research and publication), the overlap between philosophical theory and medical advance has become an accepted phenomenon. However, largely because of the success of the pioneering work of Beauchamp and Childress (Beauchamp, T.L. and Childress, J.F. Principles of Biomedical Ethics NY: OUP 1989) bioethics has become somewhat hidebound, a matter almost of received dogma. Their widely adopted four principles, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, Autonomy and Justice have been repeatedly cited as giving the framework for ethical decisions in medicine, without due recognition of the vagueness and imprecision of the principles. All are in need of interpretation in order to provide guidance in particular cases. The merit of the Textbook is its insistence that dialogue between patient and doctor lies at the heart of good treatment, and that such dialogue must rely on insight into the way a particular patient experiences the world and the significance for him or her of these experiences. The four principles may be accepted: but what is essentially required in good practice is a realization of what it is to gain access to another mind.

There are, it seems to me, three features of the Textbook that are of peculiar importance. First, there is its insistence, as I have suggested, on the crucial place of discourse in psychiatry. At a common-sense level, we are all still at risk of adopting a version of Cartesian dualism, a division between mind and body. Such dualism is deeply ingrained in ordinary language, in the dichotomy we tend to accept between the mental and the physical, the inner and the outer. This leads to an artificial anxiety about how it is possible to communicate with one another. After all, in DescartesтАЩ view, all we can really know is our own sensations and perceptions. These include the visual, auditory and tactile ideas we have of other people; but it cannot include any knowledge of their minds. We are aware of our own inner life but not of theirs. We may therefore fall into a pessimistic view of true communication; we may tend to rely on behaviouristic or perhaps physiological symptoms as a way of understanding the problems other people may suffer. The ways out of this anxiety were illuminatingly explored in the initial volume of the series on International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry (Nature and Narrative edited by Bill Fulford, Katherine Morris, John Sadler and Giovanni Stanghellini, Oxford 2003), especially in the essays by Rom Harr├й and Grant Gillett, and are further pursued at a more immediately practical level in the Textbook. The crucial insight derives originally from the phenomenology of Brentano and Husserl, and thence from Wittgenstein's view of language as essentially a shared and public connexion between тАШusтАЩ (people in the same boat, experiencing the world together and part of that world), not a private attempt to describe our inner experiences. Language, then, being intrinsically for communication, needs to have particular attention paid to it in the discourse between patient and doctor.
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