Making diagnosis meaningful : enhancing evaluation and treatment of psychological disorders /

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Imprint:	Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 1998.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 363 pages) : tables
Language:	English
Subject:	Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders -- Evaluation. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Evaluation. Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Philosophy. Mental illness -- Treatment. Psychotherapist and patient. Psychodynamic psychotherapy. Mental Disorders -- evaluation. Mental Disorders -- diagnosis. Professional-Patient Relations. Mental Disorders -- therapy. Evaluation. Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Evaluation. Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Philosophy. Mental illness -- Treatment. Psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychotherapist and patient. Electronic Books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138038

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Other authors / contributors:	Barron, James W., 1944- American Psychological Association.
ISBN:	1557984964 9781557984968
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English. Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. Print version record.
Summary:	The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) has long been considered the Bible of diagnosis and treatment, and is the foundation of treatment decisions made by managed care companies. Yet many mental health professionals are expressing increasing, and voluble, discontent with the DSM as a diagnostic tool. Among the criticisms they direct at the DSM include its reliance on a medical model and its excessive focus on reliability at the expense of validity. /// The contributors to this volume explore these and many other concerns about the DSM system and propose new ways of looking at the diagnostic and treatment activities of therapists. This collection of diverse professional viewpoints contributes to the ongoing dialogue about diagnosis and how it can be meaningfully related to what clinicians do in their actual work with patients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
Other form:	Making diagnosis meaningful (print)

Table of Contents:

The DSM-IV and its antecedents : enhancing syndromal diagnosis / Peter E. Nathan
Meaning and melancholia : why the DSM-IV cannot (entirely) ignore the patient's intentional system / Jerome C. Wakefield
A psychodynamic approach to the diagnosis of psychopathology / Sidney J. Blatt and Kenneth N. Levy
Case formulation and personality diagnosis : two processes or one? / Drew Weston
The role of ego mechanisms of defense in the diagnosis of personality disorders / George E. Vaillant and Leigh McCullough
Assessment in transitional family therapy : the importance of context / William H. Watson and Susan H. McDaniel
Relationship. subjectivity, and inference in diagnosis / Nancy McWilliams
Psychological testing, psychodiagnosis, and psychotherapy / Bruce L. Smith
An experiential psychoanalytic approach to the assessment process / Paul M. Lerner and Howard D. Lerner
Depression : intervention as assessment / Enrico E. Jones
Assessment of the patient with borderline personality disorder for psychodynamic treatment / John F. Clarkin, Otto F. Kernberg, and Javiera Somavia
Reassessing a person with schizophrenia and developing a new treatment plan / Courtenay M. Harding.

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