Diagnosis and the Dsm: A Critical Review (Palgrave Pivot)

Diagnosis and the Dsm: A Critical Review (Palgrave Pivot)

S. Vanheule
$54.99
Publication Date: March 19th, 2014
Publisher:
Palgrave Pivot
ISBN:
9781137404671
Pages:
103
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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.

About the Author

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.

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