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The Diagnostic System
Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
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English
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2017
About this book
The sociologist Jason Schnittker looks at the multiple actors involved in crafting the DSM and the many interests that the manual hopes to serve. The Diagnostic System urges us to become comfortable with the socially constructed nature of categorization and accept that a perfect taxonomy of mental-health disorders will remain elusive.
Author / Editor information
Jason Schnittker is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Contexts, among others.
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Charles E. Rosenberg, professor of the history of science and medicine and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University:
In an area too often marked by advocacy and polemic, The Diagnostic System provides a well-informed, judicious, and, in fact, invaluable guide to a complex body of scholarship and controversy. Perhaps most important, it addresses those complex interrelationships between individual experience and the social, cultural, and institutional circumstances that in part constitute that experience. It is an important book on a foundational if elusive set of questions.
In an area too often marked by advocacy and polemic, The Diagnostic System provides a well-informed, judicious, and, in fact, invaluable guide to a complex body of scholarship and controversy. Perhaps most important, it addresses those complex interrelationships between individual experience and the social, cultural, and institutional circumstances that in part constitute that experience. It is an important book on a foundational if elusive set of questions.
Allan Horwitz, Board of Governors Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University:
The particular strength of this very well-written critique of psychiatric diagnosis is to examine how the DSM has a variety of constituencies—clinicians, researchers, patients, and the general public—that each has its own way of approaching the manual.
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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1. THE CONTESTED ONTOLOGY OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
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2. WHAT DIAGNOSES ARE
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3. DSM-III AND THE DESCRIPTIVE SCIENCE OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
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4. RETHINKING THE DSM
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5. HOW PROFESSIONALS USE DIAGNOSES
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6. HOW THE PUBLIC USES DIAGNOSES
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7. HOW SCIENTISTS USE THE DSM
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8. HOW CULTURES USE DIAGNOSES
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9.THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE OF PSYCHIATRIC NOSOLOGY
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10. THE ENDLESS SEARCH FOR VALIDITY
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11. THE ENDURANCE OF THE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM
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NOTES
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INDEX
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September 25, 2017
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9780231544597
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368
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