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CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): In view of the publication of the DSM-V researchers were asked to discuss the theoretical implications of the definition of mental disorders. The reasons for the use, in the DSM-III, of the term disorder instead of disease are considered. The analysis of these reasons clarifies the distinction between the general.

It is shown that the concept of mental disorder developed: moves beyond the internalist bias of many current concepts, recognizes the normative nature of disorder, encourages consideration of.

Wakefield's harmful dysfunction analysis of mental disorder is among the most rigorous and thoughtful attempts to address serious conceptual problems that beset the foundations of abnormal psychology. According to Wakefield, disorder is a hybrid concept comprising a factual component specifying derangement in a naturally-selected function, and a value component specifying the resultant harm.

Factual component (there is an underlying dysfunction) and a value component (it is seen by society as harmful). Requires an additional component to be seen as a mental disorder - must cause harm to the individual. One criticism of Wakefield is that it is hard to define what a normal evolutionary process is and therefore determine deviations from the norm.

Question: Using Wakefield's notion of harmful dysfunction, how does the concept of mental disorders differentiate from the concepts of medical disorders and social deviance?

The introduction of the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013 is being hailed as the biggest event in psychiatry in the last 10 years. In this paper I examine three important issues that arise from the new manual:(1) Expanding nosology: Psychiatry has again broadened its nosology to include human experiences not previously under its purview (eg, binge eating.

The Loss of Sadness How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. Controversial, high-profile thesis that depression is largely a made-up phenomenon by the mental health profession, and especially psychiatry.

The development of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders —the DSM-5—has reenergised and driven further forward critical discourse about the place and role of diagnosis in mental health. The DSM-5 has attracted considerable criticism, not least about its role in processes of medicalisation. This paper suggests the.

Mental disorders specifically associated with stress are exceptional in needing external events to have caused psychiatric symptoms for a diagnosis to be made. The specialty of stress-associated disorders is characterised by lively debates, including about the extent to which human suffering should be medicalised,1 and the purported overuse of the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The contribution of neuroscience to the concept of mental disorder. Summary. Aim. In this article the contribution of neuroscience to the concept of mental disorder is discussed against the background of biological psychiatry and philosophy of mind.. Wakefield JC (2014) Wittgenstein’s nightmare: why the RDoC grid needs a conceptual.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the concept of mental illness was widely criticized. One of the major criticisms focused on the notion that mental illness was a “myth that justifies psychiatric intervention in socially disapproved behavior” (Wakefield, 1992). Thomas Szasz (1960), a noted psychiatrist, was perhaps the biggest proponent of this view.

Pathologizing is the practice of seeing a symptom as indication of a disease or disorder. In mental health, the term is often used to indicate over-diagnosis or the refusal to accept certain.