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Do Psychiatric Diagnoses Cause Symptoms?

Authors :
Pies
Ruffalo
Source :
Psychiatric Times; Sep2024, Vol. 41 Issue 9, p16-18, 3p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

The article examines why psychiatric diagnoses are neither circular nor uniformative nor lacking in explanatory value despite the absence of known pathophysiological processes as part of their diagnostic criteria. Topics include problems and inadequacies in DSM-5 psychiatric diagnostic categories, mistaken beliefs about the nature, scope, and purpose of the diagnostic categories, and diagnoses that embody so little descriptive or causal content as to be trivially nonexplanatory.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
08932905
Volume :
41
Issue :
9
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Psychiatric Times
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
179442463