Ontological assumptions of psychiatric taxonomy: Main rival positions and their critical assessment

Psychopathology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 135-140

  Oulis, Panagiotis ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Idealism; Nominalism; Ontology; Psychiatric nosology; Psychopathology, classification; Psychopathology, taxonomy; Realism

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 42349083831     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113005     Document Type: Review

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