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Jason Schnittker - The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled - 9780231178068 - V9780231178068
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The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled

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Description for The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; JHB; JMB; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the brain and the mind, and this ambiguity presents a challenge for those who seek to accurately classify psychiatric disorders. The leading resource we have for doing so is the American Psychiatric Association'sDiagnostic and Statistical Manual, but no edition of the manual has provided a decisive solution, and all have created controversy. InThe Diagnostic System, the sociologist Jason Schnittker looks at the multiple actors involved ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178068
SKU
V9780231178068
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Ref
99-15

About Jason Schnittker
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.

Reviews for The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
The particular strength of this very well-written critique of psychiatric diagnosis is to examine how the DSM has a variety of constituencies-clinicians, researchers, patients, and the general public-that each has its own way of approaching the manual.
Allan Horwitz, Board of Governors Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University In an area too often marked by advocacy and polemic, The Diagnostic ... Read more

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