Philosophy and Mental Health MA/PGDip/PGCert

UCLAN - University of Central Lancashire

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In Preston

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Preston

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Location

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Preston (Lancashire)
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University Of Central Lancashire, PR1 2HE

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On request

About this course

In addition to standard access via prior academic qualifications, applications to this programme are also welcome from potential students with relevant practical experience in the field of mental health through, for example, mental health nursing or patient advocacy. Applications from all candidates will be considered on their merits. Those without formal qualifications will be invited to undertake a short exercise typical of work on the degree programme: summarising and criticising Thomas Szasz' essay: 'The myth of mental illness'. ...

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Subjects

  • Mental Health
  • Philosophy

Course programme

Programme at a Glance 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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