Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry IV: Psychiatric Nosology

Cover......Page 1
Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry IV......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I Nature of psychiatric illness......Page 22
Section 1 Clinical significance and disability  
in psychiatric illness......Page 24
1 Introduction to “Clinical significance, disability, and biomarkers: Shifts in thinking between DSM-​IV and DSM-​5”......Page 26
2 Clinical significance, disability, and biomarkers: Shifts in thinking between DSM-IV and DSM-​5......Page 29
3 Distinguishing but not dissociating psychiatric disorder and impairment in functioning: Bolton, Hume, and sentiment......Page 38
Section 2 Psychometric models in psychiatric nosology......Page 44
4 Introduction to “The hard question in psychiatric nosology”......Page 46
5 The hard question in psychiatric nosology......Page 48
6 Representation and explanation in psychometric modeling......Page 66
Section 3 Obsessive-​compulsive disorders in DSM-​5......Page 72
7 Introduction to “Obsessive-​compulsive and related disorders in DSM-​5, ICD-​11, and RDoC: Conceptual questions and practical solutions”......Page 74
8 Obsessive-​compulsive and related disorders in DSM-​5, ICD-​11, and RDoC: Conceptual questions and practical solutions......Page 76
9 “A messy business”: Balancing considerations in revising the psychiatric nosology......Page 91
Section 4 Network models of psychiatric disorders......Page 96
10 Introduction to “Mental disorders, network models, and dynamical systems”......Page 98
11 Mental disorders, network models, and dynamical systems......Page 101
12 I bet on Borsboom......Page 119
Part II Reification, epidemics, and individual symptoms......Page 122
Section 5 Reification of mental illness......Page 124
13 Introduction to “On reification of mental illness: Historical and conceptual issues from Emil Kraepelin and Eugen Bleuler to DSM-​5”......Page 126
14 On Reification of mental illness: Historical and conceptual issues from Emil Kraepelin and Eugen Bleuler to DSM-​5......Page 128
15 Reification of mental illness: Some considerations......Page 142
Section 6 Psychiatric epidemics......Page 146
16 Introduction to “Factors in the development of psychiatric epidemics”......Page 148
17 Factors in the development of psychiatric epidemics......Page 151
18 Diagnostic epidemics and diagnostic disarray: The issue of differential diagnosis......Page 164
Section 7 Culture-​bound psychiatric syndromes......Page 168
19 Introduction to “Description and explanation of the culture-​bound syndromes”......Page 170
20 Description and explanation of the culture-​bound syndromes......Page 173
21 Reflections on culture-​bound syndromes......Page 187
Section 8 The coming and going of Asperger’s syndrome......Page 192
22 Introduction to “On the appearance and disappearance of Asperger’s syndrome”......Page 194
23 On the appearance and disappearance of Asperger’s syndrome......Page 197
24 Impact of “severity decategorization” in DSM-​5......Page 208
Section 9 Auditory verbal hallucinations......Page 216
25 Introduction to “The ontology and epistemology of symptoms: The case of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia”......Page 218
26 The ontology and epistemology of symptoms: The case of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia......Page 222
27 Comment on “The ontology and epistemology of symptoms: The case of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia”......Page 238
Part III Epistemic iteration......Page 244
Section 10 Epistemic iteration in scientific taxonomies......Page 246
28 Introduction to “Epistemic iteration and natural kinds: Realism and pluralism in taxonomy”......Page 248
29 Epistemic iteration and natural kinds: Realism and pluralism in taxonomy......Page 250
30 Psychiatric nosology, epistemic iteration, and pluralism......Page 267
Section 11 Problems in the validation of psychiatric diagnoses......Page 272
31 Introduction to “Validity and the causal structure of a disorder”......Page 274
32 Validity and the causal structure of a disorder......Page 278
33 Saving the explananda......Page 295
Section 12 Personality disorders in DSM-​5......Page 304
34 Introduction to “Epistemic iteration or paradigm shift: The case of personality disorder”......Page 306
35 Epistemic iteration or paradigm shift: The case of personality disorder......Page 308
36 Why we should be realists about psychiatric disorders—​reply to Peter Zachar......Page 324
Section 13 The progressive validation of medical  
and psychiatric disorders......Page 332
37 Introduction to “Progressive validation of psychiatric syndromes: The example of panic disorder”......Page 334
38 Progressive validation of psychiatric syndromes:  
The example of panic disorder......Page 335
39 Comments on “Progressive validation of psychiatric syndromes: The example of panic disorder”......Page 353
Part IV Descriptive to etiologic and living document......Page 358
Section 14 Descriptive to etiologic  
in psychiatric nosology......Page 360
40 Introduction to “Causal pathways, random walks, and tortuous paths: Moving from the descriptive to the etiological in psychiatry”......Page 362
41 Causal pathways, random walks, and tortuous paths:  
Moving from the descriptive to the etiological  
in psychiatry......Page 363
42 Comments on “Causal pathways, random walks,  
and tortuous paths: Moving from the descriptive to  
the etiological in psychiatry”......Page 382
Section 15 Progress in psychiatric research......Page 388
43 Introduction to “What is progress in psychiatric research?”......Page 390
44 What is progress in psychiatric research?......Page 392
45 Comments on “What is progress in psychiatric research?”......Page 404
Section 16 After DSM-​5......Page 408
46 Introduction to “DSM-​5.1: Perspectives on continuous improvement in diagnostic frameworks”......Page 410
47 DSM-​5.1: Perspectives on continuous improvement in diagnostic frameworks......Page 413
48 How do we improve the DSM?......Page 424
Index......Page 428