International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Nature of psychiatric illness -- Part II. Reification, epidemics, and individual symptoms -- Part III. Epistemic iteration -- Part IV. Descriptive to etiologic and living document.
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The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the questions of nosology. This book reviews issues within psychiatric nosology from clinical, historical and particularly philosophical perspectives. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished authors.
Philosophical issues in psychiatry. IV, Classification of psychiatric illness.