Descriptions and prescriptions : values, mental disorders, and the DSMs / / edited by John Z. Sadler

• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (419 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/001/2
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness - Social aspects; Mental illness - Moral and ethical aspects
• Altri autori: SadlerJohn Z. <1953->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part One Introduction and Background -- Chatper 1 - Introduction -- Chatper 2 - The Limits of an Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders -- Chatper 3 - Values, Politics, and Science in the Construction of the DSMs -- Part Two Conceptual and Methodological Considerations -- Chatper 4 - Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology -- Chatper 5 - Survival of the Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology -- Chatper 6 - Technical Reason in the DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value -- Chatper 7 - Implications of a Pragmatic Theory of Disease for the DSMs -- Chatper 8 - Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification -- Part Three Diagnostic Categories and Values -- Chatper 9 - Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment -- Chatper 10 - Values and the Validity of Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions of Childhood and Adolescence -- Chatper 11 - Implications of an Embrace: The DSMs, Happiness, and Capability -- Chatper 12 - Why Criteria of Involuntary Action Are Value Laden -- Part Four Personal and Collective Interests -- Chatper 13 - The Hegemony of the DSMs -- Chatper 14 - What Patients and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis -- Chatper 15 - Softened Science in the Courtroom: Forensic Implications of a Value-Laden Classification -- Chatper 16 - Speaking across the Border: A Patient Assessment of Located Languages, Values, and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification -- Chatper 17 - Psychotherapists as Authors: Microlevel Analysis of Therapists' Written Reports -- Part Five Visions for the Future -- Chatper 18 - Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count? -- Chatper 19 - Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V -- Chatper 20 - Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V. ; Chatper 21 - Report to the Chair of the DSM-VI Task Force -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "One of the best accounts of the intense debates on the values underlying the DSM, the need for accountability in psychiatric diagnosis, and some of the chief philosophical and political issues in psychiatry." -- New England Journal of Medicine.
• Titolo autorizzato: Descriptions and prescriptions
• ISBN: 0-8018-7683-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809431803321
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