The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was created in 1952 by
the American Psychiatric Association so that mental health professionals in the United …

Abstract Objective: Using Wakefield's conceptualization of mental disorder as “harmful
mental dysfunction”(Wakefield, Am Psychol, 47, 373–388, 1992), we examined the evidence …

Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that
one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some …

The focus of this chapter is competence as it relates to psychopathology in development.
The chapter emphasizes the history of concepts most pertinent to competence, and …

Since 1990, more than thirty textbooks for undergraduate abnormal psychology courses
have been published. This count does not include revised editions of existing books. The …

This chapter deals with conceptions of psychopathology. From the social constructionist
perspective, sociocultural, political, professional, and economic forces influence …

Whether one is believed to have a mental disorder or not has consequences: it can give
access to special and/or medical treatment as well as other social, economic, and emotional …

Extensive and diverse conceptual work towards developing a definition of 'mental
disorder'was motivated by the declassification of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and …

Clinical diagnoses are impossible without referring to normative assumptions about what is
desirable functioning. In this paper, the authors explicate the implicit normative assumptions …

Embodied, Embedded, and Enactive Psychopathology presents a new way of thinking about
mental disorder that is holistic yet critically minded, biologically plausible yet value-inclusive …