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Classifying Psychopathology : Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophical Psychopathology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262322430
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Classifying PsychopathologyDDC classification:
  • 616.89
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds -- 2 Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing -- 3 Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification -- 4 Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds: A Conceptual Framework -- 5 Beyond Natural Kinds: Toward a "Relevant" "Scientific" Taxonomy in Psychiatry -- 6 Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry -- 7 Being a Mental Disorder -- 8 Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology -- 9 Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific Consequences -- 10 Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study -- 11 The Social Functions of Natural Kinds: The Case of Major Depression -- 12 The Missing Self in Hacking's Looping Effects -- 13 Stabilizing Mental Disorders: Prospects and Problems -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds -- 2 Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing -- 3 Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification -- 4 Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds: A Conceptual Framework -- 5 Beyond Natural Kinds: Toward a "Relevant" "Scientific" Taxonomy in Psychiatry -- 6 Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry -- 7 Being a Mental Disorder -- 8 Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology -- 9 Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific Consequences -- 10 Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study -- 11 The Social Functions of Natural Kinds: The Case of Major Depression -- 12 The Missing Self in Hacking's Looping Effects -- 13 Stabilizing Mental Disorders: Prospects and Problems -- Contributors -- Index.

Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.

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