Making the DSM-5 Concepts and Controversies /
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association published the 5th edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Often referred to as the “bible” of psychiatry, the manual only classifies mental disorders and does not explain them or guide their treatment. While science...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6504-1 |
Table of Contents:
- The History of DSM
- Considering the Economy of DSM Alternatives
- The Ideology behind DSM-5
- 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
- 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.