Binding: Hardcover
Description: This book provides a critical evaluation of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - 5). Starting from a historical overview of the evolution in psychiatric diagnosis Vanheule asserts that the diagnostic reliability of the DSM - 5 is overrated: important factors that undermine its diagnostic reliability have never been sufficiently addressed and the common idea that the handbook is reliable rests on a biased interpretation of statistical data. The book argues that the DSM - 5 builds on a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders that neglects context and proposes its replacement with a contextualizing model of mental health symptoms. Drawing from phenomenological psychiatry and Lacanian psychoanalysis the author concludes that a reflexive account of psychopathology is urgently needed.
Title: Diagnosis And The Dsm A Critical Review
Author(s): Vanheule S.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137404671
Pages: 103 Pages, Xii, 103 P.
Publication Date: 3/19/2014
Category: Nursing