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Overdiagnosis in psychiatry : how modern psychiatry lost its way while creating a diagnosis for almost all of life's misfortunes / Joel Paris. [electronic resource]

By: Series: Oxford medicine onlinePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: 2 ednDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780197504307 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616.89075 23
LOC classification:
  • RC473.D54 P37 2020
Online resources: Summary: This text, now revised in a second edition, examines the problem of overdiagnosis in psychiatry, focusing on problems with current diagnostic systems. It shows that diagnosis is not always a good guide to treatment selection and that diagnoses have been expanded in scope to justify currently popular methods of pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy. The most important categories that are overdiagnosed are bipolar disorders, major depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The boundary of pathology and normality remains unclear. This edition also discusses dimensional systems that are transdiagnostic and shows how overdiagnosis is linked to the practice of aggressive psychopharmacology.
Holdings
Item type Home library Class number URL Status Date due Barcode
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Furness NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Lancaster NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text, now revised in a second edition, examines the problem of overdiagnosis in psychiatry, focusing on problems with current diagnostic systems. It shows that diagnosis is not always a good guide to treatment selection and that diagnoses have been expanded in scope to justify currently popular methods of pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy. The most important categories that are overdiagnosed are bipolar disorders, major depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The boundary of pathology and normality remains unclear. This edition also discusses dimensional systems that are transdiagnostic and shows how overdiagnosis is linked to the practice of aggressive psychopharmacology.

Specialized.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 20, 2020).