Empiricism in Psychiatry's Post-Psychoanalytic Era: Contemplating DSM's "Atheoretical" Nosology

Constructivism in the Human Sciences | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

Abstract

The publication of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980 marked an epistemological turn within the American Psychiatric Association that rejected its interpretivist tradition in favor of a research and practice agenda predicat ed on an empiricist nosology. One of the central claims of the new nosology was that it was atheoretical in relation to mental disorder etiology and hence compatible with the various theoretical orientations of a variety of mental health practitioners. This article challenges DSM's claim of theoretical ...

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