Making the DSM-5 Concepts and Controversies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Paris, Joel. (Editor), Phillips, James. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Behavioral Therapy.; Medicine & Public Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6504-1

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...

Table of Contents:

• The History of DSM
• Considering the Economy of DSM Alternatives
• The Ideology behind DSM-5
• The Biopolitics of Defining Mental Disorder
• Establishing Normative Validity for Scientific Psychiatric Nosology: The Significance of Integrating Patient Perspectives
• The Paradox of Professional Success: Grand Ambition, Furious Resistance, and the Derailment of the DSM-5 Revision
• DSM in Philosophyland: Curiouser and Curiouser
• Overdiagnosis, Underdiagnosis, Synthesis: A Dialectic for Psychiatry and the DSM
• What does Phenomenology Contribute to the Debate about DSM-5
• The Conceptual Status of DSM-5 Diagnoses
• Conclusion.