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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Table of Contents:
- 1. The history of DSM
- 2. Considering the economy of DSM alternatives
- 3. The ideology behind DSM-5
- 4. The biopolitics of defining "mental disorder"
- 5. Establishing normative validity for scientific psychiatric nosology : the significance of integrating patient perspectives
- 6. The paradox of professional success : grand ambition, furious resistance, and the derailment of the DSM-5 revision process
- 7. DSM in philosophyland : curiouser and curiouser
- 8. Overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, synthesis : a dialectic for psychiatry and the DSM
- 9. What does phenomenology contribute to the debate about DSM-5?
- 10. The conceptual status of DSM-5 diagnoses
- 11. Conclusion