John Z. Sadler

Broschiertes Buch

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

Beschreibung

The public, mental health consumers, as well as mental health practitioners wonder about what kinds of values mental health professionals hold, and what kinds of values influence psychiatric diagnosis. Are mental disorders socio-political, practical, or scientific concepts? Is psychiatric diagnosis value-neutral? What role does the fundamental philosophical question "How should I live?" play in mental health care? In his carefully nuanced and exhaustivelyreferenced monograph, psychiatrist and philosopher of psychiatry John Z. Sadler describes the manifold kinds of values and value judgements involved in psychiatric diagnosis and classification systems like the DSM. Professor Sadler takes the reader on a fascinating conceptual tour of the inner workings ofpsychiatric diagnosis, considering the role of science, culture, sexuality, politics, gender, technology, human nature, patienthood, and professions in building his vision of a more humane psychiatric diagnostic process.

Autor

JOHN Z. SADLER, Professor and Director, Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, USA

Produktdetails

• International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 840g
• ISBN-13: 9780198526377
• ISBN-10: 0198526377
• Artikelnr.: 13913177

Rezensionen

As one who has little formal training in philosophy, but who has been practicing philosophy without a license (as do, surely, many respected colleagues who resort to the DSM codes primarily for reimbursement), I celebrate the birth of this book and wish it well. People in the field are all amateur philosophers, and they can use some professional help. The book would serve for a semester course in the last year of college and in graduate school. Every psychiatric residency and clinical psychology program should devote at least an annual grand rounds or case conference to this work. It should be required reading for anyone who has anything to do with the current use and the future development of the DSM. PsycCRITIQUES, Vol 50, No 15