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The diagnostic system : why the classification of psychiatric disorders is necessary, difficult, and never settled / Jason Schnittker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schnittker, Jason, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental illness--Diagnosis.
- Mental illness.
- Psychodiagnostics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 348 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 The Contested Ontology of Psychiatric Disorders 1
- The Deep Ambiguity of Mental Illness 4
- Controversies Surrounding Formal Diagnostic Criteria for Psychiatric Disorders 7
- The Framework of the Diagnostic System 10
- The Structure of the Chapters 13
- 2 What Diagnoses Are: DSM-III and the Form of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnoses 19
- A Brief History of DSM-III 20
- Psychiatry, Science, and Medicine 30
- The DSM and Health Insurance 33
- The Guiding Principles of DSM-III 35
- The Feighner Criteria 46
- The DSM-III Criteria 47
- The Success of DSM-III 51
- 3 DSM-III and the Descriptive Science of Psychiatric Disorders 56
- Psychiatric Disorders Around the Globe 71
- Interpreting the Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders 79
- 4 Rethinking the DSM 83
- The Conservative Approach 84
- The Dimensional Approach 88
- The Network Approach 95
- Considering Normal and Abnormal Responses to the Environment 99
- More Lumping and Less Splitting 105
- Considering the Career of a Diagnosis 108
- 5 How Professionals Use Diagnoses 111
- Theory Neutrality in Practice 113
- Mental Disorders as Essences 116
- The Production of Unreliability 118
- Diagnostic Workarounds 120
- Institutional Pressures on Diagnosis 128
- The Accuracy of Diagnosis in Primary-Care Settings 136
- Using the DSM 140
- 6 How the Public Uses Diagnoses 142
- Public Beliefs About Mental Illness 144
- How Is Information About Diagnosis Used in the Clinical Encounter? 147
- Does the DSM Create False Epidemics? 152
- The Stigma of Psychiatric Disorders 156
- Do Labels Matter for Public Beliefs? 160
- Resisting and Avoiding Labels 162
- Disease Specificity and the Public 164
- 7 How Scientists Use the DSM 166
- The Neglect of Naturally Occurring Symptom Profiles 169
- The Difficulties of Revising the DAW for Purposes of Research 175
- 8 How Cultures Use Diagnoses 179
- The DSM and the Lexicon of Disorders 182
- Diagnosing Versus Treating Disorders 188
- The DSM Creates New Entities and Not just New Symptoms 190
- Psychiatric Disorders Have Strong Semantic Gravity 196
- The Use of Psychiatric Terms in Fiction 200
- 9 The Contemporary Science of Psychiatric Nosology 205
- Are There Genes for Mental Illness? 206
- Interpreting Genetic Influences 209
- Are the Effects of Genes Specific? 213
- The Ncuroscience of Psychiatric Disorders 215
- Is Mental Illness Categorical? 219
- Are Major and Minor Disorders Caused by Different Things? 222
- Science and the DSM-5 230
- 10 The Endless Search for Validity 238
- The Universe of Validators 243
- Science and Judgment 245
- Competition Among Scientific Frameworks 256
- The Problem of Consciousness 265
- The Appeal of the Natural Sciences 270
- The Inescapable Importance of Values 272
- Summary 277
- 11 The Endurance of the Diagnostic System 280
- Conflict Among Science, Clinicians, and the Public 281
- Moving Forward 292
- The Diagnostic System in Equilibrium 296
- The Last DSM 302.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schnittker, Jason. Diagnostic system.
- ISBN:
- 9780231544597
- 0231544596
- Publisher Number:
- 99973308861
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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