Diagnosis and the DSM A Critical Review [Hardcover]

This book critically evaluates the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Through analysis of the history of psychiatric diagnosis and of the handbook itself, it argues that the DSM-5 has a narrow biomedical approach to mental disorders, and proposes a new contextualizing model of mental health symptoms.1. Dynamics of Decision Making in the DSM: the Issue of Reliability 2. Context and Diagnosis in the DSM: the Issue of ValidityVanheules book is of special importance for people working in the helping professions. In particular, it offers clinicians, educators and students in training  regardless of framework  ways of formulating the pressing presence of the medical model. & For those who are in any kind of psychotherapy-training programme, this book can offer a complex picture of current the idealisations at work around the clinical imagination in conversation with their historical, clinical and social aspects. (Aziz Guzel, Psychodynamic Practice, March, 2017)

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, associate professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and psychoanalyst in private practice (member New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis). He is the author of the book The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective, and of multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into psychopathology, and clinical diagnosis.

Stijn Vanheules book&should be read by anyone who works with people with mental disorders such as psychiatrists, clinical psychologil#&