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The diagnostic system : why the classification of psychiatric disorders is necessary, difficult, and never settled

Jason Schnittker

The diagnostic system : why the classification of psychiatric disorders is necessary, difficult, and never settled - 1ST EDITION - , New York, Columbia University Press 2017 - viii, : illustrations 348 pages ; 24 cm

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

9780231178068

RC 469 / .S36 2017

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