Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder is an original new work focusing on the challenges we face when trying to interpret and understand mental illness. The book integrates a hermeneutical perspective, and shows how such an approach can reveal important facts about historical sources in psychiatry, and the nature of dialogue in the therapeutic encounter. This is a philosophical evaluation of the problems inherent in coming to understand and decide if certain human behavior and emotional states are in fact illnesses. . . and does bring to light an interesting perspective.