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Zusatztext This book is of use to anyone working on medical classification, whether in sociology, literary studies, the health sciences, and so forth. Informationen zum Autor Professor Cooper graduated from Oxford University (Lincoln College), and completed his clinical training at UCH London and postgraduate psychiatric training at Royal Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals and Institute of Psychiatry, London, where he was leader of the UK team of the US/UK Diagnostic Project. Subsequent posts include consultant psychiatrist at Royal Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals and vice-dean of Institute of Psychiatry; Foundation Professor of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham Medical School (1972-1991). In all clinical work, John Cooper has been interested in development of close relationships between hospital psychiatry and psychiatry in primary care. Prof. Cooper was Consultant advisor to WHO in the development of ICD-8, ICD-9, and ICD-10, participant in WHO studies on schizophrenia, and WHO consultant on development of mental health services in United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.Norman Sartorius was Director of the World Health Organization's mental health programme from 1977 - 1993, President of the World Psychiatric Association from 1993 - 1999 and has been President of the European Psychiatric Association since 1999. Dr Sartorius holds professorial appointments at the Universities of London, Prague and Zagreb and is Senior Associate of Faculty at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Dr Sartorius is among the world's leading authorities on fighting stigma, co-morbidity of mental and physical illness, public health aspects of psychiatry and psychiatric education Klappentext This book provides background to psychiatric classification systems, including the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses to which classifications can be put. Zusammenfassung This book provides background to psychiatric classification systems, including the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses to which classifications can be put. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Problems before agreed psychiatric classifications were available 2: First steps towards international agreement on diagnosis and classification 3: Large-scale collaborative studies on diagnosis 4: Developments in the USA 5: The first internationally understandable epidemiological studies 6: Large community-based diagnostic studies in the USA 7: Other large community-based diagnostic surveys 8: Some problems with research methods used in psychiatric surveys 9: Translation and use of interviewing schedules in more than one language and culture 10: Towards international agreement on classification 11: Communication between different health care professions 12: Understanding classification 13: Special problems for psychiatric classification 14: Diagnosis in psychiatry 15: Classification beyond the diagnosis 16: Multi-axial classification 17: Psychiatric classification in an international perspective 18: Using a psychiatric classification 19: The future ...
