Descriptions and prescriptions values, mental disorders, and the DSMs

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-395) and index.

Pt. 1. Introduction and Background. 1. Introduction / John Z. Sadler. 2. The Limits of an Evidence-Based Classification of Mental Disorders / Harold Alan Pincus and Laurie Mcqueen. 3. Values, Politics, and Science in the Construction of the DSMs / Thomas A. Widiger -- Pt. 2. Conceptual and Methodological Considerations. 4. Values and Objectivity in Psychiatric Nosology / Patricia A. Ross. 5. Survival of the Fittest? Conceptual Selection in Psychiatric Nosology / Chris Mace. 6. Technical Reason in the DSM-IV: An Unacknowledged Value / James Phillips. 7. Implications of a Pragmatic Theory of Disease for the DSMs / George J. Agich. 8. Rethinking Normativism in Psychiatric Classification / Allyson Skene -- Pt. 3. Diagnostic Categories and Values. 9. Evaluation and Devaluation in Personality Assessment / Lee Anna Clark. 10. Values and the Validity of Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued versus Disordered Conditions of Childhood and Adolescence / Jerome C. Wakefield.

11. Implications of an Embrace: The DSMs, Happiness, and Capability / Jennifer H. Radden. 12. Why Criteria of Involuntary Action Are Value Laden / Christian Perring -- Pt. 4. Personal and Collective Interests. 13. The Hegemony of the DSMs / Michael Alan Schwartz and Osborne P. Wiggins. 14. What Patients and Families Look for in Psychiatric Diagnosis / Laura Lee Hall. 15. Softened Science in the Courtroom: Forensic Implications of a Value-Laden Classification / Daniel W. Shuman. 16. Speaking across the Border: A Patient Assessment of Located Languages, Values, and Credentials in Psychiatric Classification / Cathy Leaker. 17. Psychotherapists as Authors: Microlevel Analysis of Therapists' Written Reports / Carol Berkenkotter and Doris J. Ravotas -- Pt. 5. Visions for the Future. 18. Clinical and Etiological Psychiatric Diagnoses: Do Causes Count? / Kenneth F. Schaffner. 19. Defining Genetically Informed Phenotypes for the DSM-V / Irving I. Gottesman.

20. Values in Developing Psychiatric Classifications: A Proposal for the DSM-V / John Z. Sadler. 21. Report to the Chair of the DSM-VI Task Force from the Editors of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, "Contentious and Noncontentious Evaluative Language in Psychiatric Diagnosis" (Dateline 2010) / K. W. M. Fulford.