Description
Contents:
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: Introduction and Background
1 Introduction
2 The Limits of an Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders
3 Values, Politics, and Science in the Construction of the DSMs
PART TWO: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations
4 Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology
5 Survival of the Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology
6 Technical Reason in the DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value
7 Implications of a Pragmatic Theory of Disease for the DSMs
8 Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification
PART THREE: Diagnostic Categories and Values
9 Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment
10 Values and Validity of Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions of Childhood and Adolescence
11 Implications of an Embrace: The DSMs, Happiness, and Capability
12 Why Criteria of Involuntary Action Are Value Laden
PART FOUR: Personal and Collective Interests
13 The Hegemony of the DSMs
14 What Patient and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis
15 Softened Science in the Courtroom: Forensic Implications of a Value-Laden Classification
16 Speaking Across the Border: A Patient Assessment of Located Languages, Values, and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification
17 Psychotherapists as Authors: Microlevel Analysis of Therapists' Written Reports
PART FIVE: Visions for the Future
18 Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count?
19 Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V
20 Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V
21 Report to the Chair of the DSM-VI Task Force from the Editors of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, ""Contentious and Noncontentious Evaluative Language in Psychiatric Diagnosis"" (Dateline 2010)
References
Index