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Mental Disorders

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

– DSM5

Contents

1. Neurodevelopmental
2. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic
3. Bipolar and Related
4. Depressive
5. Anxiety
6. Obsessive-Compulsive and Related
7. Trauma- Stressor-Related
8. Dissociative
9. Somatic Symptom and Related
10. Feeding and Eating
11. Elimination
12. Sleep-Wake
13. Sexual Dysfunction
14. Gender Dysphoria
15. Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct
16. Substance-Related and Addictive
17. Neurocognitive
18. Personality
19. Paraphilic
20. Other
21. Medication-Induced Movement and Other Adverse Effects of Medication
22. Other Conditions

About

This work represents a philosophical analysis applying principles of special metaphysics to the examination of the American Medical Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders.

A Philosophical Analysis of the Psychiatric Model of Mental Disorders as Outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V).

A significant implication of this account is that the counseling practitioner who intends to counteract by her practice the domain within which her practice is exercised, is invited to extra-ordinary self-reflections. 1

Introduction

Three levels of ontological skepticism in response to psychiatric systems of belief are:

1. Abstract entities such as mental disorders not only escape appreciation by the direct sensory experience of human beings, but also indirectly by the absence of macro- or microscopic objects as well;

2. Mental disorders neither constitute clear or natural processes whose detection is immune to the imposition of values, or human interpretation;

3. It remains uncertain whether mental disorders may be remain abstracted conceptions apart from the subjective experiences of individual persons.

References

1. Mehuron k. (2006). The Depathologization of Everyday Life: Implications for Philosophical Counseling. Eastern Michigan University.