The assumption that eventually the classification in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will incorporate aspects of causation uncovered by research in neuroscience is examined in view of the National Institute of Mental Health,’s NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project. I argue that significant advantages of maintaining the classification system, focussed on grouped descriptions of symptoms, are often undervalued or not considered. In this paper I will challenge the standard view that the transition from the purely symptom based approach is an inevitable and desirable change
A Kuhnian reformulation of the recent debate in psychiatric nosography suggested that the current ps...
Editor’s Note: If all goes as planned, the American Psychiatric Association will release a new Diagn...
Contemporary psychiatry finds itself in the midst of a crisis of classification. The developments be...
The assumption that eventually the classification in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnost...
Psychiatric researchers typically assume that the modelling of psychiatric symptoms is not influence...
To examine whether and how the classification of mental disorders can be based on research, we evalu...
The failure of psychiatry to validate its diagnostic constructs is often attributed to the prioritiz...
Much attention has been paid to revisions of psychiatric classification systems. Nevertheless, there...
Abstract Psychiatric nosology is widely criticized, but solutions are proving elusive...
Aims and Methods: The general conceptual issues involved in psychiatric classification seem to be in...
International audienceBACKGROUND: Mental disorders as defined by current classifications are not ful...
This article traces the history of classification systems for mental illness and then reviews the hi...
A large part of the controversy surrounding the publication of DSM-5 stems from the possibility of r...
A Kuhnian reformulation of the recent debate in psychiatric nosography suggested that the current ps...
Editor’s Note: If all goes as planned, the American Psychiatric Association will release a new Diagn...
Contemporary psychiatry finds itself in the midst of a crisis of classification. The developments be...
The assumption that eventually the classification in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnost...
Psychiatric researchers typically assume that the modelling of psychiatric symptoms is not influence...
To examine whether and how the classification of mental disorders can be based on research, we evalu...
The failure of psychiatry to validate its diagnostic constructs is often attributed to the prioritiz...
Much attention has been paid to revisions of psychiatric classification systems. Nevertheless, there...
Abstract Psychiatric nosology is widely criticized, but solutions are proving elusive...
Aims and Methods: The general conceptual issues involved in psychiatric classification seem to be in...
International audienceBACKGROUND: Mental disorders as defined by current classifications are not ful...
This article traces the history of classification systems for mental illness and then reviews the hi...
A large part of the controversy surrounding the publication of DSM-5 stems from the possibility of r...
A Kuhnian reformulation of the recent debate in psychiatric nosography suggested that the current ps...
Editor’s Note: If all goes as planned, the American Psychiatric Association will release a new Diagn...
Contemporary psychiatry finds itself in the midst of a crisis of classification. The developments be...