Misdiagnosing normality: Psychiatry's failure to address the problem of false positive diagnoses of mental disorder in a changing professional environment

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 337-351

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

circadian rhythm disorder shift work subtype; clinical significance; Diagnosis; false positives; harmful dysfunction; history of psychiatry; philosophy of psychiatry; primary insomnia; selective mutism; social phobia; subsyndromal depression; validity of diagnostic criteria

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSULTATION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPIDEMIC; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRIEF; HAZARD; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MELANCHOLIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MUTISM; OUTPATIENT CARE; PANIC; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMOTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEALTH; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MUTISM; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77954792580     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: 13600567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638237.2010.492418     Document Type: Review

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