Diagnosis and the DSM

A Critical Review

• Author(s): S. Vanheule,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 103
• ISBN_10: 113740468X
  ISBN_13: 9781137404688
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Nursing / General , Psychology / Clinical Psychology , Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis , Medical / Psychiatry / General , Psychology / Psychopathology / General , Medical / Critical Care ,

Description:... 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.