In this work, John Z. Sadler examines the nature and significance for practice of the value-content of psychiatric diagnostic classification.

With a new edition of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis - the ICD and DSM - under development, it is timely to take a step back and evaluate how we diagnose

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This book provides an overview of the strengths and limitations of the currently available systems for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders, in

Many published books that comment on the medical model have been written by doctors, who assume that readers have the same knowledge of medicine, or by those wh