The question of 'what is a mental disorder?'is central to the philosophy of psychiatry, and has
crucial practical implications for psychiatric nosology. Rather than approaching the problem …

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders provides the authoritative list of what are considered to be mental disorders. This …

The distinction between normality and psychopathology has long been subject to debate.
DSM-III and DSM-IV provided a definition of mental disorder to help clinicians address this …

Is depression simply the result of chemical imbalances, or Schizophrenia a wholly biological
disorder? What role do the broader circumstances of an individual's social, cultural and …

This article addresses the integration problem in psychiatry: the explanatory problem of
integrating such heterogeneous factors as cause or contribute to the problems at hand …

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician,
argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary …

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 …

Endophenotypes are quantifiable components in the genes‐to‐behaviors pathways, distinct
from psychiatric symptoms, which make genetic and biological studies of etiologies for …

The first comprehensive history of" psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders. Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …

How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up
images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is …