Advancing DSM: Dilemmas in Psychiatric Diagnosis

by Phillips, Katharine A.

• ISBN13: 9780890422939
• ISBN10: 0890422931
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING INC

Summary

In this book, leading clinicians and researchers present diagnostic dilemmas from clinical practice that are intriguing, controversial, unresolved, and remarkable in their theoretical and scientific complexity. Chapters present a specific case study of a disorder or an area of diagnosis that illuminates the need for a revised diagnostic system. Chapter by chapter, Advancing DSM raises important, clinically relevant questions about the nature of diagnosis under the current DSM system and recommends new approaches.

Author Biography

Katharine A. Phillips, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University School of Medicine and Director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Program at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.

Michael B. First, M.D., is Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, New York.

Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., is Professor and Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry in the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Senior Scientist and Director of RAND at the University of Pittsburgh Health Research Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Foreword	xi
Steven E. Hyman
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Introduction	xxv
Katharine A. Phillips
Michael B. First
Harold Alan Pincus
Determining Causation in Psychiatry	1	(22)
Eric D. Caine
Clarifying the Distinction Between Disorder and Nondisorder: Confronting the Overdiagnosis (False-Positives) Problem in DSM-V	23	(34)
Jerome C. Wakefield
Michael B. First
Should the DSM Diagnostic Groupings Be Changed?	57	(28)
Katharine A. Phillips
Lawrence H. Price
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Steven A. Rasmussen
Laboratory Testing and Neuroimaging: Implications for Psychiatric Diagnosis and Practice	85	(20)
David C. Steffens
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan
Insights From Neuroscience for the Concept of Schizotaxia and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia	105	(24)
Ming T. Tsuang
William S. Stone
Sarah I. Tarbox
Stephen V. Faraone
Subthreshold Mental Disorders: Nosological and Research Recommendations	129	(16)
Harold Alan Pincus
Laurie E. McQueen
Lynn Elinson
Multiaxial Assessment in the Twenty-First Century	145	(8)
Alan M. Gruenberg
Reed D. Goldstein
Diagnostic Dilemmas in Classifying Personality Disorder	153	(38)
W. John Livesley
Relationship Disorders Are Psychiatric Disorders: Five Reasons They Were Not Included in DSM-IV	191	(34)
David Reiss
Robert N. Emde
Index	225