26 found
Order:
  1.  59
    The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease: New Philosophical and Scientific Developments.Derek Bolton & Grant Gillett - 2019 - Springer Verlag.
    This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in healthcare settings worldwide, but has been increasingly criticised for being vague, lacking in content, and in need of reworking in the light of recent developments. The book confronts the rapid changes to psychological science, neuroscience, healthcare, and philosophy that have occurred since the (...)
  2. What is mental disorder?: an essay in philosophy, science, and values.Derek Bolton - 2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in suffering, loss of freedom and life opportunities, negative impacts on education, work satisfaction and productivity, complications in law, institutions of healthcare, and more. With a new edition of the 'bible' of psychiatric diagnosis - the DSM - under developmental, it is timely to take a step back and re-evalutate exactly how we diagnose and define mental disorder. This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   55 citations  
  3. What is mental illness?Derek Bolton - 2013 - In K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini & Tim Thornton (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 434.
    The question "What is mental illness?" raises many issues in many contexts, personal, social, legal, and scientific. This chapter reviews mental health problems as they appear to the person with the problems, and to family and friends-before the person attends the clinic and is given a diagnosis-a time in which whether there really is a problem, as opposed to life's normal troubles and variations, is undecided, as also the nature of the problem, if such it be, and the related matter (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  4.  22
    Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry.Derek Bolton & Jonathan Hill - 1996 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Jonathan Hill.
    This new edition of Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder addresses key issues in the philosophy of psychiatry, drawing on both philosophical and scientific theory. The main idea of the book is that causal models of mental disorders have to include meaningful processes as well as any possible lower-level physical causes, and this propsoal is illustrated with detailed discussion of current models of common mental health problems. First published in 1996, this volume played an important role in bridging the gap between (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  5.  69
    Does mental disorder involve loss of personal autonomy?Derek Bolton & Natalie Banner - 2012 - In Lubomira Radoilska (ed.), Autonomy and Mental Disorder. Oxford University Press.
  6.  24
    Classification and causal mechanisms: a deflationary approach to the classification problem.Derek Bolton - 2012 - In Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry Ii: Nosology. Oxford University Press. pp. 6-11.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  7. Problems in the Definition of 'Mental Disorder'.Derek Bolton - 2001 - Philosophical Quarterly 51 (203):182-199.
  8.  22
    An approach to Wittgenstein's philosophy.Derek Bolton - 1979 - Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press.
  9. (1 other version)Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder: The Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry.Derek Bolton & Jonathan Hill - 1999 - Philosophical Quarterly 49 (197):553-556.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  10.  68
    The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease: Responses to the 4 Commentaries.Derek Bolton - 2021 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 17 (2):(M6)5-26.
    I respond to the 4 commentaries by Awais Aftab & Kristopher Nielsen, Hane Htut Maung, Diane O’Leary and Kathryn Tabb under 3 main headings: “What is the BPSM really?” & Why update it?; “Is our approach foundationally compromised?”, and finally, “Antagonists or fellow travellers?”.
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  11.  51
    (1 other version)Life-form and Idealism.Derek Bolton - 1982 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 13:269-284.
    In this paper I shall suggest that philosophy which bases itself firmly inlife is incompatible with idealism. The example of such a philosophy to be discussed is the later work of Wittgenstein, and I shall define in what sense this is ‘based in life’, with particular reference to his concept of ‘Lebensform’, or ‘life-form’. I shall understand idealism to be, in general terms, the doctrine that idea is the primary, or the only, category of being. Various kinds of idealism may (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  12. Alternatives to disorder.Derek Bolton - 2000 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 7 (2):141-153.
    Debates about the concept of mental disorder involve social values, the medical model, and the sciences. It is generally agreed that the concept involves values, though how it does this continues to be disputed, and it is also recognized that the label of mental disorder or illness is stigmatizing. Wakefield's proposed definition of mental disorder in terms of harmful dysfunction locates the concept in an evolutionary theoretic framework. However, recent commentaries on Wakefield's analysis have suggested that research programs in evolutionary (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  13.  30
    An Approach to Wittgenstein’s Philosophy.Robert Fogelin & Derek Bolton - 1982 - Philosophical Review 91 (1):119.
  14.  40
    Encoding of meaning: deconstructing the meaning/causality distinction.Derek Bolton - 1997 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 4 (4):255-267.
  15.  29
    Regulation and the Normativity Problem.Derek Bolton & Predrag Šustar - 2022 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 35 (2):135-151.
    The concept of regulation pervades biology, for example in models of genetic regulatory networks and the endocrine system. Regulation has a normative opposite, dysregulation, which figures prominently in biomedical models of disease. The use of normative concepts in biology, however, has been thought to present some challenges for the physicalist view of the world, and various resolutions have been proposed. Up to now the problem of biological normativity has been debated largely in connection with the concept of biological information. In (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16.  4
    (1 other version)Better to Have No Deep Cut Anywhere in the Biopsychosocial System.Derek Bolton - 2024 - Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 31 (3):321-324.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Better to Have No Deep Cut Anywhere in the Biopsychosocial SystemDerek Bolton, PhD (bio)It is very good to see theoretical work on the biopsychosocial model, acknowledging the causal role of these three kinds of factors in health and disease. I think Ongaro is right to argue that the biopsychosocial model requires an account of these three also being one—integrated—and that systems theoretic concepts such as dynamic, nonlinear causation are (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  17.  20
    Meaning and causal explanations in the behavioural sciences.Derek Bolton - 2003 - In Bill Fulford, Katherine Morris, John Z. Sadler & Giovanni Stanghellini (eds.), Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press.
  18.  52
    Review. A Phillips Griffiths (ed). Philosophy, psychology and psychiatry.Derek Bolton - 1996 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (3):474-475.
  19.  13
    Response to the Commentary.Derek Bolton - 1997 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 4 (4):273-275.
  20. Self-knowledge, error, and disorder.Derek Bolton - 1995 - In Martin Davies & Tony Stone (eds.), Mental Simulation: Evaluations and Applications - Reading in Mind and Language. Wiley-Blackwell.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  21.  16
    What is psychiatric disease? A commentary on Dr Ghaemi's paper.Derek Bolton - 2012 - In Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry Ii: Nosology. Oxford University Press. pp. 54.
  22. What's the problem?Derek Bolton - 2007 - In Paul Kurtz & David Richard Koepsell (eds.), Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments? Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. pp. 1--6.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  23.  75
    The Epistemology of Randomized, Controlled Trials and Application in Psychiatry.Derek Bolton - 2008 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 15 (2):159-165.
    The epistemological principles underlying randomized, controlled trials and evidence-based medicine generally have not received the attention they require. Broadly speaking, they are the application of work done over several centuries in philosophy and scientific method. The epistemological base is sound, but it also implies internal limitations, having to do with decreasing generality, which particularly affect application to psychological problems. The principles also have nothing to say about values. The question of the 'objective validity' of scientific method is briefly discussed.
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  24.  14
    Reply to" Reasons and Causes in Philosophy and Psychopathology".Jonathan Hill & Derek Bolton - 1997 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 4 (4):319-322.
  25.  14
    No Title available: New Books. [REVIEW]Derek Bolton - 1985 - Philosophy 60 (231):142-143.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  26.  60
    Ethical Issues in Psychosurgery By John Kleinig London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985,xv+152 pp., £15.00, £5.95 paper - Madness and Reason By Jennifer Radden London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985, xiii+174 pp., £15.00, £5.95 paper. [REVIEW]Derek Bolton - 1987 - Philosophy 62 (239):106-.