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Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation

Dynamics of Decision-Making: The Issue of Reliability in Diagnosis Diagnosis and the DSM From Prototype to Checklist: A Brief History Commotion in Psychiatry, Part I: Diagnosis Under Fire in the 1970s Commotion in Psychiatry, Part II: Critical Researchers Dethrone the Psychiatric Ethos Commotion in Psychiatry, Part III: Deinstitutionalization, Rationalization, Medicalization, and Fuzzy Decision-Making Neo-Kraepelinian Restoration Diagnostic Reliability Since the DSM-III Conclusion Other References Symptom and Context: The Issue of Validity in Diagnosis Toward a Functional Account of Psychopathology How the DSM Takes into Account Context The Paradox of Polythetic Descriptive Diagnosis Sign-Based Diagnosis Beyond Sign-Based Diagnosis: Symptoms as Personal Constructions Intermezzo: Lacan's Position The Search for Biomedical Referents Toward an Era of Biopsychopathology?The Mental Disorder: What Kind of Kind?Conclusion Other References From Mental Suffering to Mental Disorder and Back Again What Do We Diagnose?Psychopathology Psychopathology Versus Abnormality What Is Pathos?A Plea for Studying the Quality and Circumstances of Mental Suffering DSM-5: A Matter of Disorders What About Suffering: Verstehen or Gardez- vous de comprendre?Conclusion Other References Working with Clinical Case Formulations: Methodological Considerations Mapping Mental Health Problems Function-Oriented Diagnosis Case Construction Qualitative Research as a Methodological Framework Quality Assurance in Diagnostic Case Formulation Reflexivity Reflexivity in the Context of Function- Oriented Case Formulation Aiming at Validity and Reliability: A Matter of Careful Verification Reliability Considered Closely A Closer Look at Validity Conclusion Other References Bibliography

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