Title

Postmodern Reflections On Modern Psychiatry: The Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders

Abstract

The DSM-III-R, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is the standard text for the diagnosis and treatment of “mental” and “behavioral” “disorders.” It has been widely adopted by mental-health professionals — from the U.S. to Europe to Asia — and will serve as the principal diagnostic system for the foreseeable future. This is in spite of the fact that there is a significant number of humanistically oriented psychologists who are dissatisfied with and do not employ' its methods, and that work is currently proceeding on a DSM-IV to rectify these and other shortcoming of the DSM-III-R. Given its primacy and influence, however, the DSM-III-R is a document vitally important to the well-being of millions of people whose lives are to be influenced by its practitioners. Therefore, its working assumptions about the nature of the mind, about the lifeworld of “patients,” about “health” and “illness,” and about the place of individuals in society should not escape critical scrutiny. These assumptions have their roots in the Modem conception of philosophy stemming from rationalist and empiricist soil. © 1992, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

3-1-1992

Publication Title

The Humanistic Psychologist

Volume

20

Issue

1

Number of Pages

75-91

Document Type

Article

Identifier

scopus

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/08873267.1992.9986780

Socpus ID

84954846200 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84954846200

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