Classifying Psychopathology : Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds.

Contents -- Preface -- 1 Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds -- 2 Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing -- 3 Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification -- 4 Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds: A Conceptual Framework -- 5 Beyond Natural Kinds: Toward a "Relevant" "Scientific" Taxonomy in Psychiatry -- 6 Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry -- 7 Being a Mental Disorder -- 8 Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology -- 9 Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific Consequences -- 10 Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study -- 11 The Social Functions of Natural Kinds: The Case of Major Depression -- 12 The Missing Self in Hacking's Looping Effects -- 13 Stabilizing Mental Disorders: Prospects and Problems -- Contributors -- Index.