PTSD in DSM-III: A Case in the Politics of Diagnosis and Disease

Scott, Wilbur J.

doi:10.1525/sp.1990.37.3.03a00020

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“…construction (e.g., Scott, 1990;Summerfield, 2001;Young, 1995Young, , 2004. Another indication of lack of consensus regarding the criteria for PTSD is the marked difference between the DSM-IV and ICD-10 diagnostic criteria.…”

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Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V

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Wakefield

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“…Over a decade ago, Yehuda and McFarlane (1995) observed that the conceptual origins of PTSD had not been supported. Scott (1990), Summerfield (2001), and Young (1995) analyzed the social and political origins of the diagnosis. These papers and others (e.g., Bowman, 1997;Breslau & Davis, 1987;McNally, 2003McNally, , 2004Summerfield, 1999), led Rosen (2004) to observe: ''It is the rare moment when most every assumption and theoretical underpinning of a psychiatric disorder comes under attack, or is found to lack empirical support.…”

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Challenges to the PTSD construct and its database: The importance of scientific debate

Rosen

Frueh

2007

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…But even Finkelhor (1999) himself acknowledged that the CSA hypothesis had been exaggerated for the purpose of establishing the seriousness of the CSA problem. Nevertheless, one author after another has expressed his theory of inevitable emotionally traumatic and psychopathological outcomes of CSA (Finkelhor, 1999;Herman, 1992;Leys, 2000;Scott, 1990;Terr, 1988;Ullmann & Hilweg, 2000;Vanderlinden & Vandereycken, 1999).…”

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Onanism and Child Sexual Abuse: A Comparative Study of Two Hypotheses

Malón

2009

Arch Sex Behav

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For some decades now in the West, there has been a growing social anxiety with regard to a phenomenon which has become known as child sexual abuse (CSA). This anxiety is fed by scientific theories whose cornerstone is the assessment of these experiences as necessarily harmful, due to their presumed serious consequences for the present and future lives of the minors involved in them. This principle, widely held by experts and laypersons alike, was also part and parcel of the danger presumably posed by Onanism, a phenomenon which occupied a similar position in society and medical science in the West during the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. The present work is a comparative review of these two hypotheses and the central objective was to compare the evolution and fundamental elements of the two hypotheses in light of what history tells us about Onanism theory. This comparative analysis will allow a critical look at the assumptions of the CSA hypothesis in order to make evident the similarities to the conceptual model that enabled the Onanism hypothesis in the past.

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PTSD in DSM-III: A Case in the Politics of Diagnosis and Disease

Cited by 102 publications

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Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V

Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V

Challenges to the PTSD construct and its database: The importance of scientific debate

Onanism and Child Sexual Abuse: A Comparative Study of Two Hypotheses

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