Descriptions and prescriptions : values, mental disorders, and the DSMs / edited by John Z. Sadler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadler, John Z., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Classification--Social aspects.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Classification--Moral and ethical aspects.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"One of the best accounts of the intense debates on the values underlying the DSM, the need for accountability in psychiatric diagnosis, and some of the chief philosophical and political issues in psychiatry." -- New England Journal of Medicine.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Part One Introduction and Background

Chatper 1 - Introduction

Chatper 2 - The Limits of an Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders

Chatper 3 - Values, Politics, and Science in the Construction of the DSMs

Part Two Conceptual and Methodological Considerations

Chatper 4 - Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology

Chatper 5 - Survival of the Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology

Chatper 6 - Technical Reason in the DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value

Chatper 7 - Implications of a Pragmatic Theory of Disease for the DSMs

Chatper 8 - Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification

Part Three Diagnostic Categories and Values

Chatper 9 - Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment

Chatper 10 - Values and the Validity of Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions of Childhood and Adolescence

Chatper 11 - Implications of an Embrace: The DSMs, Happiness, and Capability

Chatper 12 - Why Criteria of Involuntary Action Are Value Laden

Part Four Personal and Collective Interests

Chatper 13 - The Hegemony of the DSMs

Chatper 14 - What Patients and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis

Chatper 15 - Softened Science in the Courtroom: Forensic Implications of a Value-Laden Classification

Chatper 16 - Speaking across the Border: A Patient Assessment of Located Languages, Values, and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification

Chatper 17 - Psychotherapists as Authors: Microlevel Analysis of Therapists' Written Reports

Part Five Visions for the Future

Chatper 18 - Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count?

Chatper 19 - Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V

Chatper 20 - Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V.

Chatper 21 - Report to the Chair of the DSM-VI Task Force

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7683-4

OCLC:

559339389