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Study Details: MA/PgDip/PgCert: up to 3 years part-time for the MA
Because of its very nature, mental health care raises as many conceptual questions as empirical ones. The philosophy of mental health is a rapidly developing field developed by philosophers, clinicians, eg psychiatrists and mental health nurses and mental health service users. Based on the Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry co-authored by the course leader, the MA Philosophy and Mental Health course aims to develop a better understanding of psychiatry, and mental health care more broadly, through an analysis of some of its fundamental concepts.
A recognised British honours degree to a good standard, or its equivalent.
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International: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/study_here/fees_and_finance/international_tuition_fees.php
Subjects include:
The concepts of illness, disease and disorder in mental health;
The history of psychopathology;
Empathy;
Validity of psychiatry diagnosis;
The codification of diagnosis and tacit knowledge;
The conceptual underpinnings of evidence based medicine;
Values based practice;
Psychiatric ethics;
Brain imaging and the mind body problem;
Reasons and causes;
Meaning in cognitivist psychiatry;
Meaning and social constructionism in discursive psychology;
Free will;
Autism and the problem of other minds.
Year 1
Core concepts in philosophy and mental health
A philosophical history of psychopathology
The philosophy of science and mental health
Year 2
Ethics, values and mental health
The philosophy of mind and mental health
Introduction to Postgraduate Philosophically-Based Research
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