Classifying Madness

Name: Classifying Madness
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A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Автор: Rachel Cooper

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The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" is important, but it is also controversi...

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Автор

Rachel Cooper

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2010

страници

178

EAN

9789048168415

ISBN

9048168414

Enbook ID

01975084

Издател

Springer

Теглоt

311

Размери

160 x 240 x 11

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The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" is important, but it is also controversial. While its publishers claim that the D.S.M. is a scientific classification system based on sound data, many have doubts. Big business has interests in the D.S.M. Perhaps the D.S.M. has been distorted by pressures stemming from insurance companies, or from pharmaceutical companies? Others are concerned that whether a condition is classified as a mental disorder depends too greatly on social and political factors. More conceptual worries are also frequent. If classification requires a theory, and if mental disorders are poorly understood, then a sound classification system may be presently unobtainable. Possibly even attempting to construct a classification system that "cuts nature at the joints" is conceptually na

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