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

• Autore: Paris Joel <1940->
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/075
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness - Diagnosis
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Overdiagnosis in psychiatry
• ISBN: 0-19-935067-1; 0-19-935065-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796909003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II