Diagnosis and the DSM : a critical review
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- ISBN: 9781137404671 (hardcover)
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xii, 103 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Dynamics of Decision-Making in the DSM: The Issue of Reliability -- From prototype to checklist: a brief history -- Commotion in psychiatry, part I: diagnosis under fire in the 1970s -- Commotion in psychiatry, part II: critical researchers dethrone the psychiatric ethos -- Commotion in psychiatry, part III: deinstitutionalization, rationalization, medicalization, and fuzzy decision-making -- Neo-Kraepelinian restoration -- Diagnostic reliability since the DSM-III -- Conclusion -- 2. Context and Diagnosis in the DSM: The Issue of Validity -- How the DSM takes into account context -- paradox of polythetic descriptive diagnosis -- Sign-based diagnosis -- Beyond sign-based diagnosis: symptoms as personal constructions -- Intermezzo: Lacan's position -- search for biomedical referents -- mental disorder: what kind of kind? -- Conclusion. |
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Subject: | Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders -- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders Mental illness -- Classification Mental illness -- Diagnosis |
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Thompson Campus Library | RC 455.2. C4 V36 2014 (Text) | 58500001010461 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |