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Reading List......
Instructor
Jeremy Jackson
|     Jan 5, 2016
Location:
Online
|     Blackboard
Ray Bradbury: "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them."

Week 1

Chapter 1 - Schultz and Schultz - all

 

Week 2

Chapter 2 - Schultz and Schultz - all

Metaphysics

Epistemology

 

Week 3

Chapter 3 - Schultz and Schultz - all

 

Week 4

Chapter 4 - Schultz and Schultz - only the sections about Wundt. 10th edition pages 65-77.

Chapter 5 - Schultz and Schultz - all

Chapter 7 - Schultz and Schultz - 10 the edition pages 127-140. Stop after the section on William James.

Chapter 8 - Schultz and Schultz - 10th edition pages 159-177. Stop at the end of the section on clinical psychology.

 

Week 5

Chapter 9 - Schultz and Schultz - 10th edition pages 159-177. Stop at the end of the section on clinical psychology.

Watson v McDougal debate

 

Week 8

Chapter 10 - Schultz and Schultz - all

 

Week 9

Just read Lecture 7

 

Week 10

Just read Lecture 8

 

Week 12

Hacker at Oxford

Hacker in Holland

 

Week 13

Thomas Szasz in Australia - Interview part 1 - the nature of mental illness

Thomas Szasz - Dr Szasz in Birmingham - the socio-politics of mental illness

Thomas Szasz - Dr Szasz interview with Randall Wyatt

Psychiatric Times: Critique of Szasz

Mad science - chapter 1

 

Weeks 14 & 15

Debate About The Nature of Depression: A 5-minute conversation with Joe

Chair of DSM-IV, Allen Frances - The role of definition and meaning on the rate of mental disorder - Allen Frances

Chair of DSM-IV, Allen Frances - The role of economics, paradigms, and zeitgeists in over-diagnosis - Allen Frances

A most beautiful introduction to an international conference on over-diagnosis held in 2014 - Iona Heath

The British Psychological Society on DSM-V - The British Psychological Society on DSM-V

The End......what this course was about - Hitchens on the importance of learning

 

General Readings - Not Required But May be Useful or Interesting

Should Psychiatry and Neurology Merge in to One Discipline? This is a classic form of debate over the subject matter of a discipline. It is characteristic of the normal, ongoing "war for territory" fought by all disciplines throughout history. Just as we have debated the subject matter of psychology from the begging (and we still debate it vigorously today), psychiatry and other related medical specialties have debated the nature of their subject matter. The debate is most enlightening about the kinds of issues that matter in such decisions. As always, you will notice that the debate centers keenly on the role of language in the demarcation of subject matter. - Psychiatric Times

 

 
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