Psychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship
between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders …

First published in 2002. Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?, first published in 1990, made
a very significant contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental …

The harmful dysfunction (HD) analysis of the concept of disorder (JC Wakefield, 1992a)
holds that disorders are harmful failures of internal mechanisms to perform their naturally …

This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more
commonly known as the DSM The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric …

In this first article in a two-article series, I 'diagnose'a problem with DSM-IV, specifically, the
overinclusiveness of its diagnostic criteria. Using the harmful dysfunction analysis of the …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents the philosophical analysis of concepts of health
and of its various defects—illness, disease, disorder, pathology, injury, and disability. As to …

This article presents a critical review of the recent controversies concerning the diagnosis of
pedophilia in the context of the preparation of the fifth edition of the DSM. The analysis …

With a rapidly expanding elderly population, there has been a marked increase in the
incidence of dementia, and this dreadful, debilitating illness now affects-directly or indirectly …

Philosophy of medicine is a field that seeks to explore fundamental issues in theory,
research, and practice within the health sciences, particularly metaphysical and …

This paper is a critical analysis of the concept of mental disorder recently advanced by
Jerome Wakefield (1992a, 1992b, 1993, 1996, 1997a, 1997b). Wakefield suggests that …