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Descriptions and Prescriptions Descriptions and Prescriptions Values,Mental Disorders,and the DSMs . , .. Professor,Department ofPsychiatry University ofTexas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Dallas,Texas The Johns Hopkins University Press (cid:1) (cid:1) Baltimore and London © The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved.Published Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper The Johns Hopkins University Press North Charles Street Baltimore,Maryland - www.press.jhu.edu -- Descriptions and prescriptions :values,mental disorders,and the DSMs /edited by John Z.Sadler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ---(hardcover :alk.paper) . Mental illness—Classification—Social aspects. . Mental illness— Classification—Moral and ethical aspects. . Diagnostic and statistical manual ofmental disorders. I. Sadler,John Z.,– . [DNLM: . Mental Disorders—classification. . Social Values. ] c.. .(cid:1)(cid:1)—dc A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Contents List ofContributors ix Acknowledgments xi Part One Introduction and Background Introduction . The Limits ofan Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders Values,Politics,and Science in the Construction ofthe DSMs . Part Two Conceptual and Methodological Considerations Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology . Survival ofthe Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology Technical Reason in the DSM-IV:An Unacknowledged Value vi Contents Implications ofa Pragmatic Theory ofDisease for the DSMs . Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification Part Three Diagnostic Categories and Values Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment Values and the Validity ofDiagnostic Criteria:Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions ofChildhood and Adolescence . Implications ofan Embrace:The DSMs,Happiness, and Capability . Why Criteria ofInvoluntary Action Are Value Laden Part Four Personal and Collective Interests The Hegemony ofthe DSMs . What Patients and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis Softened Science in the Courtroom:Forensic Implications ofa Value-Laden Classification . Speaking across the Border:A Patient Assessment ofLocated Languages,Values,and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification Psychotherapists as Authors:Microlevel Analysis ofTherapists’Written Reports . Contents vii Part Five Visions for the Future Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count? . Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V . Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V . Report to the Chair ofthe DSM-VI Task Force from the Editors ofPhilosophy,Psychiatry,and Psychology,“Contentious and Noncontentious Evaluative Language in Psychiatric Diagnosis”(Dateline ) . . . References Index Contributors GJ.A,Ph.D.,F.J.O’Neill Chairman,Department ofBioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,Cleveland,Ohio C B, Ph.D.,Professor ofRhetoric,Department ofHu- manities,Michigan Technological University,Houghton,Michigan L A C, Ph.D.,Professor,Department ofPsychology,University ofIowa,Iowa City,Iowa K.W.M.F, D.Phil.,F.R.C.Psych.,Professor ofPhilosophy and Men- tal Health,Department ofPhilosophy,University of Warwick,Coven- try;and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist,Department ofPsychiatry, University ofOxford,Oxford,United Kingdom I I. G, Ph.D., Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology and Professor of Medical Genetics (Pediatrics), Department of Psy- chology,University ofVirginia,Charlottesville,Virginia L L H, Ph.D.,former Director of Research,NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill);biomedical and health care analyst and writer. C L, Ph.D.,Visiting Instructor ofEnglish and Women’s Studies, Empire State College,State University ofNew York,Rochester,New York C M, M.D., M.R.C.Psych., Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, Department ofPsychology,University ofWarwick,Coventry,United Kingdom L MQ, M.S.S.W., DSM Project Manager, American Psychi- atric Association,Washington,D.C.
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