Has psychiatric diagnosis labelled rather than enabled patients?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7920, 2013, Pages

  Callard, Felicity ^a   Bracken, Pat ^b   David, Anthony S ^c   Sartorius, Norman ^d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Bantry General Hospital   (Ireland)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEPRESSION; DSM-5; EMPOWERMENT; HUMAN; MEDICALIZATION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; OVERMEDICALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 84882312378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f4312     Document Type: Article

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