The diseased embodied mind: constructing a conception of mental disease in relation to the person.
Without a better understanding of mental disease, patients diagnosed with a mental disease may be mistreated clinically and/or socially, and caregivers and families may be wrongfully blamed for causing the disease and/or for not effectively helping and developing meaningful relationships with the patient as person. In trying to understand mental disease and why its various dimensions raise difficulties for our systems of classification and our medical models of diagnosis and treatment, a framework is required. This framework will connect metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical considerations in ways that are mutually supportive and illuminating. This, in turn, will benefit those who are diseased and those persons who study, classify, diagnose, and treat disease.
Aultman
Julie M
JM
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, 4209 State Route 44, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA. jmaultma@neoucom.edu
D001321:Autistic Disorder; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D028723:Personhood; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics*
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