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Diagnosis and the DSM
Stijn Vanheule
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Description for Diagnosis and the DSM
This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms. Num Pages: 116 pages, 10 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMP; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 292.
This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms.
This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms.
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
115
Condition
New
Number of Pages
103
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137404671
SKU
V9781137404671
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Ref
99-15
About Stijn Vanheule
Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, associate professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and psychoanalyst in private practice (member New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis). He is the author of the book The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective, and of multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into psychopathology, and clinical diagnosis.
Reviews for Diagnosis and the DSM
“Vanheule’s book is of special importance for people working in the helping professions. In particular, it offers clinicians, educators and students in training – regardless of framework – ways of formulating the pressing presence of the medical model. … For those who are in any kind of psychotherapy-training programme, this book can offer a complex picture of current the idealisations ... Read more