Diagnosis and the Dsm: A Critical Review

This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms.

Author: S. Vanheule
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 03/19/2014
Pages: 103
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781137404671

About the Author

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, associate professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and psychoanalyst in private practice (member New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis). He is the author of the book The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective, and of multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into psychopathology, and clinical diagnosis.