Ce que le DSM-5 exclut

What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today

Edward Shorter


Publisher : Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country : United Kingdom
Published : 19 March 2015
Pages : 202
ISBN : 9781138830905

Historically-Based Mental Disorders and the DSM: What Psychiatry Left Out covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were. Psychiatry as a field is over two centuries old and over that time has gathered great wisdom about mental illnesses. Today, much of that knowledge has been ignored and we have diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that do not correspond to the diseases found in nature; we have also left out disease labels that on a historical basis may be real. Edward Shorter proposes a history-driven alternative to the DSM