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Title Making the DSM-5 : concepts and controversies / Joel Paris, James Phillips, editors
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 180 pages)
Contents Part I: Historical/Ideological Perspectives -- The History of DSM -- Considering the Economy of DSM Alternatives -- The Ideology Behind DSM-5 -- Part II: Ideological and Conceptual Perspectives -- The Biopolitics of Defining "Mental Disorder" -- Establishing Normative Validity for Scientific Psychiatric Nosology: The Significance of Integrating Patient Perspectives -- The Paradox of Professional Success: Grand Ambition, Furious Resistance, and the Derailment of the DSM-5 Revision Process -- Part III: Conceptual Perspectives -- DSM in Philosophyland: Curiouser and Curiouser -- Overdiagnosis, Underdiagnosis, Synthesis: A Dialectic for Psychiatry and the DSM -- What Does Phenomenology Contribute to the Debate About DSM-5? -- The Conceptual Status of DSM-5 Diagnoses -- Conclusion
Summary In Making the DSM-5, prominent experts delve into the debate about psychiatric nosology and examine the conceptual and pragmatic issues underlying the new manual. While retracing the historic controversy over DSM, considering the political context and economic impact of the manual, and focusing on what was revised or left unchanged in the new edition, this timely volume addresses the main concerns of the future of psychiatry and questions whether the DSM legacy can truly improve the specialty and advance its goals
Analysis Medicine
Psychiatry
Psychopharmacology
Behavioral Therapy
Medicine & Public Health
psychiatrie
geneeskunde
volksgezondheid
public health
farmacologie
pharmacology
therapie
therapy
gedrag
behaviour
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
In Springer eBooks
SUBJECT Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th ed. -- History
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fast
"Manuel diagnostique et statistique des troubles mentaux" rero
Subject Mental illness -- Classification.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders -- classification
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
Médecine.
Mental illness
Genre/Form Classification
History
Form Electronic book
Author Paris, Joel, 1940-
Phillips, James, 1938-
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