Jason Schnittker, "The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled"
English | ISBN: 0231178069 | 2017 | 368 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the brain and the mind, and this ambiguity presents a challenge for those who seek to accurately classify psychiatric disorders. The leading resource we have for doing so is the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, but no edition of the manual has provided a decisive solution, and all have created controversy. In