Diagnosis and the DSM [electronic resource] : A Critical Review /
Vanheule, S.author.
This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 ValidityHow the DSM takes into account context; The paradox of polythetic descriptive diagnosis; Sign-based diagnosis; Beyond sign-based diagnosis: symptoms as personal constructions; Intermezzo: Lacan's position; The search for biomedical referents; The mental disorder: what kind of kind?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms.
Nursing.
Psychology, clinical.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychiatry.
Psychology, Pathological.
Nursing.
Clinical Psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychiatry.
Psychopathology.