Descriptions and Prescriptions

Contents:



List of Contributors

Acknowledgments



PART ONE: Introduction and Background

1 Introduction

2 The Limits of an Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders

3 Values, Politics, and Science in the Construction of the DSMs



PART TWO: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations

4 Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology

5 Survival of the Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology

6 Technical Reason in the DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value

7 Implications of a Pragmatic Theory of Disease for the DSMs

8 Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification



PART THREE: Diagnostic Categories and Values

9 Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment

10 Values and Validity of Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions of Childhood and Adolescence

11 Implications of an Embrace: The DSMs, Happiness, and Capability

12 Why Criteria of Involuntary Action Are Value Laden



PART FOUR: Personal and Collective Interests

13 The Hegemony of the DSMs

14 What Patient and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis

15 Softened Science in the Courtroom: Forensic Implications of a Value-Laden Classification

16 Speaking Across the Border: A Patient Assessment of Located Languages, Values, and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification

17 Psychotherapists as Authors: Microlevel Analysis of Therapists' Written Reports



PART FIVE: Visions for the Future

18 Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count?

19 Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V

20 Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V

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)



References

Index

""In particular, I believe this volume has explicit value for all who serve on a DSM-V committee, as well as those with an interest in nosology or medical sociology, those with a critical role in psychiatric education, or those who simply have a philosophical bent (a non-DSM character trait). ""