Schnittker The Diagnostic System

Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54459-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schnittker, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.