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Do Psychiatric Diagnoses Cause Symptoms?
- Source :
- Psychiatric Times; Sep2024, Vol. 41 Issue 9, p16-18, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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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