Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry

Abstract

Introduction PART 1 - TECHNICAL REASON IN PSYCHIATRY 1. the instrument metaphor, hyponarrativity, and the generic physician 2. Technoloigcal rationality in psychiatry: immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternative 3. Technological reason and regulation of emotion PART 2 - CRITICAL APPROACHES TO TECHNOLOGY IN PSYCHIATRY 4. Technology, aesthetic explanation, and psychoanalysis 5. Focusing the lenses of feminist theories to reflect on technology and psychiatry 6. The critical theory of psychopharmacology: the work of David Healy and beyond 7. Towards a post-technological information theory PART 3 - TECHNOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS 8. Technology and mental disorders: a clinical probe into the differential impact on individuals 9. Frontal fatigue: how technology may contribute to mental illness 10. Bored to tears? Depression and Heideggr's concepts of profound boredom: a postpsychiatry contribution PART 4 - TECHNOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS 11. Psychiatric rehabilitation and the notion of technology in psychiatry 12. Drugs, not hugs: antidepressant medication trials and suicidality in children - a case history in the philosophy of science as an argument for the neeed for improved technology in psychiatry 13. Philosophical considerations of an internet-enabled telephone and computer psychiatric symptom monitoring system: maintaining thebalance between subjectivity and objectivity in research 14. The assessment of emotional awareness: can technology make a contribution? PART 5 - ETHICAL ISSUES IN TECHNOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY 15. Thinking about the repair manual: technique and technology in psychiatry 16. Beyond repugnance: human enhancement and the President's Council on Bioethics 17. The reflectively anxious and depressed psychotropics and lives worth living