Psychiatry has always been characterized by a range of different models of and approaches
to mental disorder, which have sometimes brought progress in clinical practice, but have …

This article argues that psychiatric diagnoses are not valid or useful. The use of psychiatric
diagnosis increases stigma, does not aid treatment decisions, is associated with worsening …

Modern descriptive psychiatry was born two centuries ago in the classification of Pinel, was
later systematized in the textbook of Kraepelin, and was then expanded by Freud to include …

It is becoming increasingly evident that the usefulness of diagnostic categories in psychiatry
has been overemphasized. These categories have been initially charged with implications …

This forward-thinking volume grapples with critical questions surrounding the mechanisms
underlying mental disorders and the systems used for classifying them. Edited and written by …

A comprehensive revision to the textbook on modern psychiatric diagnosis and treatment,
keyed to the DSM-5 and ICD-10. Long considered a leading text on the assessment …

In their day-to-day work, clinicians will continue to use the fuzzy constructs operationally
defined and narratively depicted in DSM-5 and ICD-11. Advances in our understanding of …

A foundational question for the discipline of psychiatry is the nature of psychiatric disorders.
What kinds of things are they? In this paper, I review and critique three major relevant …

Broadly defined, the fields of psychotherapy and psychopathology have been with us for
well over 100 years, but in recent decades substantial paradigm shifts have occurred. In …

Across the landscape of mental health research and diagnosis, there is a diverse range of
questionnaires and interviews available for use by clinicians and researchers to determine …