The “Whole-Patient” Approach to Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Carlat Psychiatry Report, Volume 12, Number 5, May 2014
https://www.thecarlatreport.com/newsletter-issue/tcprv12n5/
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information
Topics: DSM | Practice Tools and Tips
Margaret S. Chisolm, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Chisholm has disclosed that she receives book royalties from the JHU Press. Dr. Balt has reviewed this article and found no evidence of bias in this educational activity.
Alongside DSM, another conceptual model has risen, one based on concepts originally developed by Adolf Meyer and Karl Jaspers in the early 20th century. In the 1980s, these ideas were organized and later were described in the book, The Perspectives of Psychiatry, published in 1998 (Johns Hopkins University Press). The Perspectives of Psychiatry’s authors, Paul McHugh and Phillip Slavney, have steadfastly viewed the DSM system as fundamentally flawed and have consistently expressed concern about its negative impact on the field.
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