Peter V Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 6338264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter V Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter V |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER P V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diagnostic line-drawing, professional boundaries, and the rhetoric of scientific justification
This article briefly reviews the role of social, professional, and bureaucratic issues in shaping the development and dissemination of DSM-III, and its successive revisions — DSM-III-R and DSM-IV. A series of illustrations are presented which highlight the sensitivity of the DSM process to sociocultural qualification and its striking insensitivity to empirical literature and research data-sets. It is argued that the value-neutral language of just…
Psychiatry, naivete, and the politics of dissimulation
This essay is a brief response to Parker's “Diagnostic Line-drawing: How to Pick an Eagle from a Turkey” (1999). The primary significance of Parker's commentary is seen in his willingness to acknowledge that acceptance of DSM-III, and its subsequent revisions, has been engineered around the strategic use of “smoke and mirrors”. Despite frank criticism of isolated elements of the DSM process, Parker's overall critique is blinkered by his adherence…
Psychology as ideology
This essay takes up a number of the themes highlighted in the paper “Psychology as History, and the Biological Renaissance” (Butler, 1998), and also specifically addresses elements of the three commentaries invited in response to that paper which appear in the current issue of Australian Psychologist (Davidson, 1998; Reser, 1998; Stankov, 1998). Although aspects of these commentaries are challenged, each is seen as making a contribution to debate…
Diagnostic line-drawing, professional boundaries, and the rhetoric of scientific justification
This article briefly reviews the role of social, professional, and bureaucratic issues in shaping the development and dissemination of DSM-III, and its successive revisions — DSM-III-R and DSM-IV. A series of illustrations are presented which highlight the sensitivity of the DSM process to sociocultural qualification and its striking insensitivity to empirical literature and research data-sets. It is argued that the value-neutral language of just…
Psychology as ideology
This essay takes up a number of the themes highlighted in the paper “Psychology as History, and the Biological Renaissance” (Butler, 1998), and also specifically addresses elements of the three commentaries invited in response to that paper which appear in the current issue of Australian Psychologist (Davidson, 1998; Reser, 1998; Stankov, 1998). Although aspects of these commentaries are challenged, each is seen as making a contribution to debate…
Psychology as ideology
This essay takes up a number of the themes highlighted in the paper “Psychology as History, and the Biological Renaissance” (Butler, 1998), and also specifically addresses elements of the three commentaries invited in response to that paper which appear in the current issue of Australian Psychologist (Davidson, 1998; Reser, 1998; Stankov, 1998). Although aspects of these commentaries are challenged, each is seen as making a contribution to debate…
Diagnostic line-drawing, professional boundaries, and the rhetoric of scientific justification
This article briefly reviews the role of social, professional, and bureaucratic issues in shaping the development and dissemination of DSM-III, and its successive revisions — DSM-III-R and DSM-IV. A series of illustrations are presented which highlight the sensitivity of the DSM process to sociocultural qualification and its striking insensitivity to empirical literature and research data-sets. It is argued that the value-neutral language of just…
Psychiatry, naivete, and the politics of dissimulation
This essay is a brief response to Parker's “Diagnostic Line-drawing: How to Pick an Eagle from a Turkey” (1999). The primary significance of Parker's commentary is seen in his willingness to acknowledge that acceptance of DSM-III, and its subsequent revisions, has been engineered around the strategic use of “smoke and mirrors”. Despite frank criticism of isolated elements of the DSM process, Parker's overall critique is blinkered by his adherence…
Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works)