Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis

by Caplan, Paula J.; Cosgrove, Lisa; McHugh, Maureen; Ali, Alisha; Armstrong, Louise; Becker, Dana; Bullock, Heather E.; Caplan, Emily Julia; Cohen, Emily; Fish, Vincent; Gerrard, Nikki; Gibson, Pamela; Javed, Nayyar; Linder, Meadow; Metcalfe, William R.; Po

• ISBN13: 9780765703750
• ISBN10: 0765703750
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-17
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book about how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into psychiatric categories. This is a hot topic addressed to the public's right to know, especially because the negative consequences of psychiatric diagnosis range from loss of custody of a child to denial of health insurance and employment to removal of one's right to make decisions about one's legal affairs.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Maureen McHugh	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Is This Really Necessary?	xix
Paula J. Caplan and Lisa Cosgrove
PART I THE CREATION OF BIAS IN PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
1 The Construction of Illness	3	(6)
Meadow Linder
2 The Deep Structure of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis	9	(16)
Jeffrey Poland and Paula J. Caplan
3 Creating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Study of the History, Sociology, and Politics of Psychiatric Classification	25	(16)
Meadow Linder
4 Abnormal Psychology Textbooks Exclude Feminist Criticism of the DSM	41	(8)
Autumn Wiley
PART II LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF BIAS IN PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
5 Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Legal System	49	(6)
Emily J. Caplan
6 Bias and Subjectivity in Diagnosing Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases	55	(6)
Paula J. Caplan
7 What Is It That's Being Called "Parental Alienation Syndrome"?	61	(10)
Paula J. Caplan
PART III SOME FORMS THAT BIAS TAKES
8 The Intersection of Racism and Sexism in Psychiatric Diagnosis	71	(6)
Alisha Ali
9 Clinical Cases and the Intersection of Sexism and Racism	77	(4)
Nayyar Javed
10 Should Racism Be Classified As a Mental Illness?	81	(8)
Wesley E. Profit
11 Ageism in Psychiatric Diagnosis	89	(10)
Rachel Josefowitz Siegel
12 The Psychiatric Policing of Children	99	(10)
Louise Armstrong
13 Confusing Terms and False Dichotomies in Learning Disabilities	109	(6)
Paula J. Caplan
14 Diagnosis of Low-Income Women	115	(6)
Heather E. Bullock
15 Seeking "Normal" Sexuality on a Complex Matrix	121	(6)
William R. Metcalfe and Paula J. Caplan
16 Gender Bias and Sex Distribution of Mental Disorders in the DSM-IV-TR	127	(14)
Lisa Cosgrove and Bethany Riddle
17 Mislabeling Anxiety and Depression in Rural Women	141	(8)
Nikki Gerrard
PART IV SPECIFIC LABELS
18 Bias and Schizophrenia	149	(14)
Jeffrey Poland
19 The Truth about "False Memory Syndrome"	163	(8)
Karen A. Olio
20 Reclaiming the Meanings of "Self-esteem"	171	(6)
Nayyar Javed and Nikki Gerrard
21 Agoraphobia	177	(6)
Maureen McHugh and Lisa Cosgrove
22 Depression in Women	183	(6)
Sarah McSweeney
23 The "Eating-Disordered" Patient	189	(4)
Judith R. Rabinor
24 The Fine Line between Clinical and Subclinical Anorexia	193	(8)
Emily Cohen
25 Histrionic Personality	201	(6)
Pamela Reed Gibson
26 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder	207	(6)
Dana Becker
27 Some Gender Biases in Diagnosing Traumatized Women	213	(8)
Vincent Fish
28 Medicalizing Menstrual Distress	221	(12)
Lisa Cosgrove and Paula J. Caplan
PART V MOVING AHEAD
29 A New View of Women's Sexual Problems	233	(8)
The Working Group on A New View of Women's Sexual Problems
30 Resisting Diagnosis	241	(2)
Gloria Anthony
31 The Importance of Critical Inquiry	243	(6)
Lisa Cosgrove
32 Some Future Contenders	249	(6)
Paula J. Caplan and Wesley E. Profit
Index	255	(8)
About the Contributors	263