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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826911203321

Autore

Paris Joel <1940->

Titolo

Overdiagnosis in psychiatry : how modern psychiatry lost its way while creating a diagnosis for almost all of life's misfortunes / / Joel Paris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-935067-1

0-19-935065-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/075

Soggetti

Mental illness - Diagnosis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Diagnosis in psychiatry -- DSM and its discontents -- Over-diagnosis and overtreatment -- Science, philosophy, and diagnosis -- How 'major' is major depression? -- The boundaries of bipolarity -- PTSD and trauma -- ADHD and attention -- Personality and personality disorder -- Other disorders in which over-diagnosis is a risk -- How do we know what is normal? -- Where do we go from here?

Sommario/riassunto

As one of the few books to thoroughly examine the critical problem of over-diagnosis in psychiatry today, Dr. Joel Paris - author of The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG - shows how over-diagnosis leads to over-treatment in Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortune. Leaving no stone unturned, Dr. Paris considers the complications of the DSM-5 system with particular reference to major depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. While each of these conditions have



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910376333103321

Autore

Ranka Sanjay

Titolo

ACM-BCB 2012 : the 2012 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine : Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., October 7-10, 2012

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : ACM, 2012

ISBN

1-4503-1670-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (725 pages)

Collana

ACM Conferences

Soggetti

Biology

Health & Biological Sciences

Biology - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph