Diagnostic System - Why Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult,

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.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments
1. The Contested Ontology of Psychiatric Disorders
2. What Diagnoses Are: DSM-III and the Form of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnoses
3. DSM-III and the Descriptive Science of Psychiatric Disorders
4. Rethinking the DSM
5. How Professionals Use Diagnoses
6. How the Public Uses Diagnoses
7. How Scientists Use the DSM
8. How Cultures Use Diagnoses
9. The Contemporary Science of Psychiatric Nosology
10. The Endless Search for Validity
11. The Endurance of the Diagnostic System
Notes
Index

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Texte suppl.

This book brings to light the difficult task of diagnosing psychiatric disorders with accuracy, reliability, and validity. Recommended.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jason Schnittker, Jason (Professor Schnittker, Schnittker Jason
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780231178075
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17807-5
• Pages: 368
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Psychiatry, Mental health services, Psychological methodology, mental health; research; psychology