The Nature of the Beast
Commentary on “Can There Be a Recovery-Oriented Diagnostic Practice?”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11560874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Golan Shahar (0000-0003-3796-5749, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 346-355 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167818777653 |
| OpenAlex | W2809289108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
Pavlo, Flanagam, Leither, and Davidson attempt to reconcile the recovery movement in mental health service with a formal diagnostic practice is as courageous as it is timely. Acknowledging this, I note several points of convergence and divergence with the authors’ views. Points of convergence include (1) the inevitability of a diagnostic system when working with (severe) mental illness, (2) the importance of going beyond signs and symptoms in capturing the unique characteristics of the person, (3) the focus on humanistic values, particularly the emphasis on a collaborative assessment and on human strengths, in the diagnostic process, and (4) the role of future-oriented thinking in diagnosis. Divergence with the authors concerns (1) my own reliance on descriptive psychiatry, with its focus on signs and symptoms, as a part and parcel of an effective diagnosis, (2) the potential benefits of psychological tests, for example, self-report questionnaires and projective procedures over and above the clinical interview, and (3) my emphasis on mental representations of self-with-others, termed here and elsewhere as “agents in relations,” as the building blocks of personality and psychopathology
Convergence (economics · Divergence (linguistics · Focus (optics · Humanism · Mental health · Mental illness · Personality · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Psychotherapist · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
The interpretation of dreams.
Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory
Pragmatism
Prospection
A Rating Scale for Depression
The CES-D Scale
Transitional objects and transitional phenomena 1 —a study of the first not-me possession 2
The person in recovery from acute and severe psychosis
Can There Be a Recovery-Oriented Diagnostic Practice
Cognitive-Humanistic Psychodynamics
An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety
Social cognition and object relations
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |