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Title:

Descriptions and prescriptions : values, mental disorders, and the DSMs / edited by John Z. Sadler.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xii, 406 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Mental illness--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Mental illness--Moral and ethical aspects.--Moral and ethical aspects.
Mental Disorders--classification.
Social values.

Other Authors:

Sadler, John Z., 1953-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-395) and index.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The limits of an evidence-based classification of mental disorders -- Ch. 3. Values, politics, and science in the construction of the DSMs -- Ch. 4. Values and objectivity in psychiatric nosology -- Ch. 5. Survival of the fittest? Conceptual selection in psychiatric nosology -- Ch. 6. Technical reason in the DSM-IV: an unacknowledged value -- Ch. 7. Implications of a pragmatic theory of disease for the DSMs -- Ch. 8. Rethinking normativism in psychiatric classification -- Ch. 9. Evaluation and devaluation in personality assessment -- Ch. 10. Values and the validity of diagnostic criteria: disvalued versus disordered conditions of childhood and adolescence -- Ch. 11. Implications of an embrace: the DSMs, happiness, and capability -- Ch. 12. Why criteria of involuntary action are value laden -- Ch. 13. The hegemony of the DSMs -- Ch. 14. What patients and families look for in psychiatric diagnosis -- Ch. 15. Softened science in the courtroom: forensic implications of a value-laden classification -- Ch. 16. Speaking across the border: a patient assessment of located languages, values, and credentials in psychiatric classification --Ch. 17. Psychotherapists as authors: microlevel analysis of therapists' written reports -- Ch. 18. Clinical and etiological psychiatric diagnoses: Do causes count? -- Ch. 19. Defining genetically informed phenotypes for the DSM-V -- Ch. 20. Values in developing psychiatric classifications: a proposal for the DSM-V -- Ch. 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).

ISBN:

9780801868405 (alk. paper)
0801868408 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46725728

LCCN:

2001002186

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)