[L]abels of Themselves Condition Our Perceptions”
The DSM and the Diagnostic Sign of Schizophrenia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12911774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Flexer (0000-0002-0616-4888, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-48 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12232 |
| OpenAlex | W1853985613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) has been partitioning mental illnesses into discrete disease entities for over 60 years. The diagnostic class of schizophrenia has undergone several different labels and some profound changes to its criteria over all these iterations. In trying to develop the least‐imperfect pragmatic description, the DSM has had to make several assumptions about the disease, and over the various iterations several critics – from within and without psychiatry – have increasingly felt that the APA have accepted their own assumptions as truth, creating a self‐justifying and self‐perpetuating ideology of schizophrenia. The latest edition, DSM‐5 , has incorporated some of this criticism, but it is unclear whether the dominant ideology of the diagnostic labels will be over‐turned or will simply incorporate this challenge to its authority into its own “continuity myth” of ever‐improving diagnostic criteria
Association (psychology · Class (philosophy · Criticism · Diagnosis of schizophrenia · Epistemology · Ideology · Imperfect · Mental disease · Mythology · Perception · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychosis · Psychotherapist · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming · Sign (mathematics · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis
Rethinking schizophrenia
Michel Foucault , History of Madness , translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (London/New York
The Kraepelinian dichotomy
The Failure of Diagnostic Psychiatry and some prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism
The survival of psychiatric diagnosis
Toward DSM-V and the classification of psychopathology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |