What a Theory of Mental Health should be
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Boorse (University of Delaware, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-84 |
| Publication date | 1976-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5914.1976.tb00359.x |
| OpenAlex | W2004649515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 14 |
Citation · Library science · Mental health · Psychiatry · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
Clinical Problems and the Concept of Disease
Normality and Mental Health
Neurodiversity Studies
Disorder as harmful dysfunction
A Second Rebuttal On Health
Health Care Needs and Distributive Justice
Valuable Harmful Dysfunctions
Public Justification, Evaluative Standards, and Different Perspectives in the Attribution of Disability
The disruption of grief in the technological niche
Resilience beyond reductionism
An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions
Brain dysfunction without function
What personality can teach us about mental health
Expanding insurance coverage for in vitro fertilisation with preimplantation genetic testing
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis
In vitro fertilisation with preimplantation genetic testing
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being
Are Gay and Lesbian People Fading into the History of Bioethics
Natural kinds, psychiatric classification and the history of the DSM
Clinical judgment
Capability to be healthy – Implications for prevention
A natural alliance of teaching and philosophy of science
Mental health pluralism
Disease
Relationships between perceived stress and resilience with happiness
Should Behavior Harmful to Others Be a Sufficient Criterion of Mental Disorders? Conceptual Problems of the Diagnoses of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Pedophilic Disorder
A Human Right to What Kind of Health
Saúde como ausência de doença
Where’s the problem? Considering Laing and Esterson’s account of schizophrenia, social models of disability, and extended mental disorder
The function of the heart is not obvious
Defining ‘health’ and ‘disease’
Medical knowledge in a social world
Towards a socially constructed and objective concept of mental disorder
Public epistemic trustworthiness and the integration of patients in psychiatric classification
Naturalizing normativity
Broken wills and ill beliefs
Epistemic health, epistemic self-trust, and bipolar disorder
Beyond biological and social normativity
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health
Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatric Classification
Health as a Theoretical Concept
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs
Boorse et les antipsychiatres
Relearning the World through Grief-Informed Case Formulation
Paracetamol, Poison, and Polio
A Dispositional Theory of Health
What are Mental Disorders? Exploring the Role of Culture in the Harmful Dysfunction Approach
Philosopher sur les concepts de santé
Doctors, psychiatrists and disease
A crise da psiquiatria centrada no diagnóstico e o futuro da clínica psiquiátrica
Normal e Patológico no naturalismo e no normativismo em saúde
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,04 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2026 (50) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |