Establishing Normative Validity for Scientific Psychiatric Nosology: The Significance of Integrating Patient Perspectives

What is the DSM? Diagnostic manual, cultural icon, political battleground: an overview with suggestions for a critical research agenda

“…See Kirk & Hutchins (2002) for a detailed discussion of field trials and reliability in the context of the production and promotion of DSM-III. See Porter (2013) for a discussion of the construct of validity espoused in DSM-III and its origins in the work of Robins & Guze (1970). iv This critique has been formulated in relation to specific sentiments or conditions such as shyness/social phobia (Lane, 2008;Scott, 2006), sadness/depressive disorder (Horwitz &Wakefield, 2007) and female sexual dysfunction (e.g.…”

“…In Compton & Guze's own candid words, '[t]he medical model is without a priory theory, but does consider brain mechanisms to be a priority ' (1995, p. 200). Porter (2013) rightly notes that this seemingly contradictory statement makes sense in the context of an implicit and unreflective commitment to a certain (materialist) ontology.…”

“…Sadler, 2002a;Sadler & Fulford, 2004;Porter, 2013), as part of a broader discussion of the normativity of psychiatric diagnosis (Sadler, 2002b;. While some dismissed the very idea of including patients and families in the revision process as 'politically correct nonsense' (Spitzer, 2004), one of the procedural innovations associated with DSM-5 was the provision of an online platform where progress on the revision process was regularly documented for the general public, and where members of the public were invited to acquaint themselves with the working groups responsible for revising particular categories of disorders.…”

RDoC, Psychopathology, and Naturalism: What’s New Is What’s Old?

“…When Mad Pride activists adopted the basic premise of the disability rights movement “Nothing About Us Without Us” (Lewis, 2006, p. 349), they were speaking about an issue of social justice. Democratization of knowledge production that calls for the participation of service users is a safeguard in ensuring that the needs and interests of service users are represented when these important and value-laden epistemic decisions are made (Porter, 2013). Passivity in the face of brain facts called for by naturalist theories serves as a barrier to this kind of democratization in knowledge production.…”

DSM-5: Overview of methodological procedure

“…Ти ва-ли1аFори су осFали окосница у развоју свих 1аљих из1ања ВЛАДИМИР М. ЈОВИЋ DSM-а, иако нису мо'ли )и*и +о*врђени ем+иријским +у*ем; "Ори-Tинални вали1аFори РоCинса и Гузеја нису 4оFвр1или му1росF 4осFојеће сFрукFуре" (Regier et al, 2009). У основи они су 4ре1-сFављали "1ео ме1ицинскоT мо1ела 4сихијаFрије који се моTао 1иференцираFи о1 Cио4сихосоцијалноT мо1ела" (Porter, 2013). ИсFи ови ауFори су и екс4лициFно 4оFвр1или 1а иза аFеореFскоT сисFема сFоји Cиоме1ицински мо1ел: "Мозак, и како мож1ани механизми сFоје у вези са функционалним 4оремећајима смаFрали Cи се 4рвим циљем 4сихијаFрије ме1ицинскоT мо1ела", или касније: "Ме1ицински мо1ел је Cез a priori Fеорије, али 4ос-маFра мож1ане механизме као 4риориFеF" (Compton & Guze, 1995).…”