The physical basis of mental illness - Chase, Ronald (New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, 2012)
Three historical vignettes -- The search for understanding -- Descartes' dualism -- Dualism supports stigmatization and other unhelpful attitudes -- Philosophical alternatives to Cartesian dualism -- Mental illnesses are brain illnesses -- Toward a reconciliation of philosophy and science in psychiatry.
Keywords: Mental Disorders -- physiopathology; Mental Processes -- physiology; Philosophy, Medical; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychophysiology