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ArticlePhilosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM2012

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion.

James Phillips, Allen Frances, Michael A Cerullo, John Chardavoyne, Hannah S Decker, Michael B First, Nassir Ghaemi, Gary Greenberg, Andrew C Hinderliter, Warren A Kinghorn and 15 more

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Article in Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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25 authors.

James PhillipsDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, 300 George St, Suite 901, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. james.phillips@yale.edu
Allen Frances
Michael A Cerullo
John Chardavoyne
Hannah S Decker
Michael B First
Nassir Ghaemi
Gary Greenberg
Andrew C Hinderliter
Warren A Kinghorn
Steven G LoBello
Elliott B Martin
Aaron L Mishara
Joel Paris
Joseph M Pierre
Ronald W Pies
Harold A Pincus
Douglas Porter
Claire Pouncey
Michael A Schwartz
Thomas Szasz
Jerome C Wakefield
G Scott Waterman
Owen Whooley
Peter Zachar

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the conclusion to this multi-part article I first review the discussions carried out around the six essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis - the position taken by Allen Frances on each question, the commentaries on the respective question along with Frances' responses to the commentaries, and my own view of the multiple discussions. In this review I emphasize that the core question is the first - what is the nature of psychiatric illness - and that in some manner all further questions follow from the first. Following this review I attempt to move the discussion forward, addressing the first question from the perspectives of natural kind analysis and complexity analysis. This reflection leads toward a view of psychiatric disorders - and future nosologies - as far more complex and uncertain than we have imagined.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersHumansMental DisordersReproducibility of ResultsTerminology as Topic

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PMID23249629
PMCPMC3563521

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