A companion to the classification of mental disorders

A companion to the classification of mental disorders

by Cooper, J. E., (John Edward)

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A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses for these classifications. The book emphasises the dangers of regarding any current psychiatric classification as true or complete, in view of the present partial state of knowledge about the causes and mechanisms of most mentaland behavioural disor…

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  • Full title :A companion to the classification of mental disorders / John E. Cooper, Norman Sartorius.

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A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses for these classifications. The book emphasises the dangers of regarding any current psychiatric classification as true or complete, in view of the present partial state of knowledge about the causes and mechanisms of most mentaland behavioural disorders. This book is unique in containing a number of chapters that give a brief history of the cooperative efforts and projects necessary for the production of internationally agreed psychiatric classifications.

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  • Publication Date:2013.

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781299907942, 1299907946, 0191648280, 9780191648281
  • oclc:ocn858968198
  • LC Classification:RC455.2.C4
  • Dewey Decimal:616.890012

Subjects

Classification Diagnostic and statistical manual of me… HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases Maladies mentales -- Classification Maladies mentales -- Diagnostic MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine MEDICAL -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine Mental Disorders -- classification Mental illness Mental illness -- Classification Mental illness -- Diagnosis

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Cooper, J. E., (John Edward) Sartorius, N.

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