{"product_id":"classifying-psychopathology-isbn-9780262549592","title":"Classifying Psychopathology","description":"\u003cb\u003eScholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders \u003c\/i\u003e(DSM), asking whether current systems are sufficient for effective diagnosis, treatment, and research. Doing so, they take up the question of whether mental disorders are natural kinds, grounded in something in the outside world. Psychiatric categories based on natural kinds should group phenomena in such a way that they are subject to the same type of causal explanations and respond similarly to the same type of causal interventions. When these categories do not evince such groupings, there is reason to revise existing classifications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors all question current psychiatric classifications systems and the assumptions on which they are based. They differ, however, as to why and to what extent the categories are inadequate and how to address the problem. Topics discussed include taxometric methods for identifying natural kinds, the error and bias inherent in DSM categories, and the complexities involved in classifying such specific mental disorders as “oppositional defiance disorder” and pathological gambling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Graham, Nick Haslam, Allan Horwitz, Harold Kincaid, Dominic Murphy, Jeffrey Poland, Nancy Nyquist Potter, Don Ross, Dan Stein, Jacqueline Sullivan, Serife Tekin, Peter ZacharPreface ix\u003cbr\u003e 1 Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds 1\u003cbr\u003e Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e 2 Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing 11\u003cbr\u003e Nick Haslam\u003cbr\u003e 3 Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification 29\u003cbr\u003e Jeffrey Poland\u003cbr\u003e 4 Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds: A Conceptual Framework 65\u003cbr\u003e Dan J. Stein\u003cbr\u003e 5 Beyond Natural Kinds: Toward a “ Relevant ” “ Scientific ”Taxonomy in Psychiatry 75\u003cbr\u003e Peter Zachar\u003cbr\u003e 6 Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry 105\u003cbr\u003e Dominic Murphy\u003cbr\u003e 7 Being a Mental Disorder 123\u003cbr\u003e George Graham\u003cbr\u003e 8 Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology 145\u003cbr\u003e Harold Kincaid\u003cbr\u003e 9 Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific\u003cbr\u003e Consequences 175\u003cbr\u003e Nancy Nyquist Potter\u003cbr\u003e 10 Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study 195\u003cbr\u003e Don Ross\u003cbr\u003e 11 The Social Functions of Natural Kinds: The Case of Major Depression 209\u003cbr\u003e Allan Horwitz\u003cbr\u003e 12 The Missing Self in Hacking’s Looping Effects 227\u003cbr\u003e Şerife Tekin\u003cbr\u003e 13 Stabilizing Mental Disorders: Prospects and Problems 257\u003cbr\u003e Jacqueline Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors 283\u003cbr\u003e Index 285Harold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics and Director of the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics at the University of Cape Town. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDistributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Addiction?\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacqueline A. Sullivan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, London, Ontario, and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of multiple recent journal articles on topics in philosophy of neuroscience.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302939021541,"sku":"NP9780262549592","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262549592.jpg?v=1767723804","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/classifying-psychopathology-isbn-9780262549592","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}