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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"psychiatric nosology"”.
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Weak nerves in China: Neurasthenia-depression controversy as a window on psychiatric nosology
… 1980 neurasthenia was removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This roughly coincided with the opening of China after Nixon’s famous visit, and for the first time in many years, Western academics were welcomed back into China to …
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The Social Construction of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
<p>The creation of psychiatric diagnoses, otherwise known as psychiatric nosology, is a complex endeavor, one involving a great deal of social construction. One diagnosis in particular, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), exemplifies the different factors that go into the creation of …
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Examining the Utility of Life Narratives for the Assessment of Personality Pathology in Emerging Adults
Recent advances in psychiatric nosology adopt a dimensional conceptualization for personality pathology. This framework includes the assessment of an individual’s level of personality functioning (LPF), constituting core features of personality pathology across self- and interpersonal domains. …
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Critically questioning an African perspective on psychopathology : a systematic literature review
… highlighted the following outcomes: current psychiatric nosology employed a universalistic approach to diagnosis and intervention, thus limiting cultural conceptions of mental illness; holistic intervention requires the inclusion of traditional epistemological tenets; collaboration between …