The diagnostic system : why the classification of psychiatric disorders is necessary, difficult, and never settled /

Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the brain and the mind, and this ambiguity presents a challenge for those who seek to accurately classify...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schnittker, Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Mental illness > Diagnosis.
Psychodiagnostics.
Mental Disorders > classification
Mental Disorders > diagnosis
Psychiatry > history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Maladies mentales > Diagnostic.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > Research & Methodology.
Mental illness > Diagnosis
Psychodiagnostics
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The deep ambiguity of mental illness
  • Controversies surrounding formal diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders
  • The framework of the diagnostic system
  • The structure of the chapters
  • A brief history of DSM-III
  • Psychiatry, science, and medicine
  • The DSM and health insurance
  • The guiding principles of DSM-III
  • The Feighner criteria
  • The DSM-III criteria
  • The success of DSM-III
  • Psychiatric disorders around the globe
  • Interpreting the prevalence of psychiatric disorders
  • The conservative approach
  • The dimensional approach
  • The network approach
  • Considering normal and abnormal responses to the environment
  • More lumping and less splitting
  • Considering the career of a diagnosis
  • Theory neutrality in practice
  • Mental disorders as essences
  • The production of unreliability
  • Diagnostic workarounds
  • Institutional pressures on diagnosis
  • The accuracy of diagnosis in primary-care settings
  • Using the DSM
  • Public beliefs about mental illness
  • How is information about diagnosis used in the clinical encounter?
  • Does the DSM create false epidemics?
  • The stigma of psychiatric disorders
  • Do labels matter for public beliefs?
  • Resisting and avoiding labels
  • Disease specificity and the public
  • The neglect of naturally occurring symptom profiles
  • The difficulties of revising the DSM for purposes of research
  • The DSM and the lexicon of disorders
  • Diagnosing versus treating disorders
  • The DSM creates new entities and not just new symptoms
  • Psychiatric disorders have strong semantic gravity
  • The use of psychiatric teams in fiction
  • Are there genes for mental illness?
  • Interpreting genetic influences
  • Are the effects of genes specific?
  • The neuroscience of psychiatric disorders
  • Is mental illness categorical?
  • Are major and minor disorders caused by different things?
  • Science and the DSM-5
  • The universe of validators
  • Science and judgment
  • Competition among scientific frameworks
  • The problem of consciousness
  • The appeal of the natural sciences
  • The inescapable importance of values
  • Summary
  • Conflict among science, clinicians, and the public
  • Moving forward
  • The diagnostic system in equilibrium
  • The last DSM.

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