{"product_id":"defining-mental-disorder-jerome-wakefield-and-his-critics-paperback","title":"Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and His Critics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuc Faucher\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDenis Forest\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHarold Kincaid\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as \"harmful dysfunction,\" with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most pressing theoretical problems of psychiatry is the definition of mental disorder. Jerome Wakefield's proposal that mental disorder is \"harmful dysfunction\" has been both influential and widely debated; philosophers have been notably skeptical about it. This volume provides the first book-length collection of responses by philosophers to Wakefield's harmful dysfunction analysis (HDA), offering a survey of philosophical critiques as well as extensive and detailed replies by Wakefield himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHDA is offered as a definition of mental disorder, but it is also the outcome of a method--conceptual analysis--and contributors first take up HDA's methodology, considering such topics as HDA's influences on the DSM, empirical support for HDA, and clinical practice. They go on to discuss HDA's ultimate goal, the demarcation between normal and abnormal; the \u003ci\u003edysfunction\u003c\/i\u003e component of the analysis, addressing issues that include developmental plasticity, autism and neurodiversity, and the science of salience; and the \u003ci\u003eharmful\u003c\/i\u003e component, examining harmless dysfunction, normal variation, medicalization, and other questions. Wakefield offers substantive responses to each chapter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Cooper, Andreas De Block, Steeves Demazeux, Leen De Vreese, Luc Faucher, Denis Forest, Justin Garson, Philip Gerrans, Harold Kincaid, Maël Lemoine, Dominic Murphy, Jonathan Sholll, Tim Thornton, Jerome Wakefield, Peter Zachar\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuc Faucher is Professor in the Philosophy Department at the at the University of Québec in Montréal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDenis Forest is Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Member of the IHPST (Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technique), Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics and Director of the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics at the University of Cape Town. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDistributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Addiction?\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Zachar is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Auburn University Montgomery. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry: A Philosophical Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDominic Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilip Gerrans is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.29 x 9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52242538758418,"sku":"9780262055796","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/mpWaGEqmJ79780262055796.webp?v=1777917685","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/defining-mental-disorder-jerome-wakefield-and-his-critics-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}