The concept of mental disorder: Diagnostic implications of the harmful dysfunction analysis

World Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 149-156

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural diagnosis; False positives; Harmful dysfunction; Mental disorder; Nosology; Philosophy of psychiatry; Psychopathology diagnosis; Validity of diagnostic criteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDUCT DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HARMFUL DYSFUNCTION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL TEST; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; VALIDITY;

EID: 35748971793     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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