The article advances a new way of thinking about classifications in general and the classification of mental disorders in particular. By applying insights from measurement practice to the context of classification, I defend a notion of epistemic accuracy that allows one to evaluate and improve classifications by comparing different classifying methods to each other. Progress in classification arises from the mutual development of classification systems and classifying methods. Based on this notion of accuracy, the article illustrates with an example how psychiatric classifications can be improved via circumscribed comparisons of different perspectives on mental disorders, without relying on complete models of their complex aetiology. When a...
Classification systems in psychiatry are a work in progress. Therefore, continued efforts to improve...
Clinicians and researchers alike struggle to diagnose psychiatric conditions in a manner that is eti...
This article does not directly consider the feelings and emotions that occur in mental illness. Rath...
The article advances a new way of thinking about classifications in general and the classification o...
Aims and Methods: The general conceptual issues involved in psychiatric classification seem to be in...
This article traces the history of classification systems for mental illness and then reviews the hi...
The assumption that eventually the classification in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnost...
To examine whether and how the classification of mental disorders can be based on research, we evalu...
In this dissertation, I argue that the discussion surrounding the role of values in the conceptualiz...
Classificatory realism is the view that nature divides herself up into classes, or “natural kinds”, ...
Dr. Garcia's article on the changes in the classification on the ICD-lO illustrates positive ch...
In this article the author examines some of the taxonomic challenges still facing diagnostic classif...
In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, inclu...
The classification of schizophrenia is currently under review in a coordinated worldwide consultatio...
Contains fulltext : 165923.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Heterogeneity i...
Classification systems in psychiatry are a work in progress. Therefore, continued efforts to improve...
Clinicians and researchers alike struggle to diagnose psychiatric conditions in a manner that is eti...
This article does not directly consider the feelings and emotions that occur in mental illness. Rath...
The article advances a new way of thinking about classifications in general and the classification o...
Aims and Methods: The general conceptual issues involved in psychiatric classification seem to be in...
This article traces the history of classification systems for mental illness and then reviews the hi...
The assumption that eventually the classification in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnost...
To examine whether and how the classification of mental disorders can be based on research, we evalu...
In this dissertation, I argue that the discussion surrounding the role of values in the conceptualiz...
Classificatory realism is the view that nature divides herself up into classes, or “natural kinds”, ...
Dr. Garcia's article on the changes in the classification on the ICD-lO illustrates positive ch...
In this article the author examines some of the taxonomic challenges still facing diagnostic classif...
In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, inclu...
The classification of schizophrenia is currently under review in a coordinated worldwide consultatio...
Contains fulltext : 165923.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Heterogeneity i...
Classification systems in psychiatry are a work in progress. Therefore, continued efforts to improve...
Clinicians and researchers alike struggle to diagnose psychiatric conditions in a manner that is eti...
This article does not directly consider the feelings and emotions that occur in mental illness. Rath...