Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Sciences/Humanism Divide

Because this piece has no abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.

In this book, David Brendel attempts the impossible: to"bridge the science/humanism divide." He proposes to use thephilosophy of pragmatism, an indigenous American school ofthought, to "heal psychiatry."Brendel introduces us to several conceptual currents thathave bedeviled both psychiatry and philosophy, principally theCartesian mind-body dualism.’ ‹