Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis

Herausgeber: Caplan, Paula J.; Cosgrove, Lisa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book about how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into psychiatric categories. This is a hot topic addressed to the public's right to know, especially because the negative consequences of psychiatric diagnosis range from loss of custody of a child to denial of health insurance and employment to removal of one's right to make decisions about one's legal affairs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780765700018
• ISBN-10: 0765700018
• Artikelnr.: 21405626

Autorenporträt

Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist, Adjunct Professor (Research) at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University, and Adjunct Professor at Washington College of Law, American University, and author of ten previous books. Lisa Cosgrove, Ph.D. is a clinical and research psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Is This Really Necessary?
Part 3 Part I The Creation of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Chapter 4 The Construction Of Illness
Chapter 5 The Deep Structure of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Chapter 6 Creating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Study of the
History, Sociology, and Politics of Psychiatric Classification
Chapter 7 Abnormal Psychology Textbooks Exclude Feminist Criticism of the
DSM
Part 8 Part II Legal Implications of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Chapter 9 Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Legal System
Chapter 10 Bias and Subjectivity in Diagnosing Mental Retardation in Death
Penalty Cases
Chapter 11 What Is It That's Being Called "Parental Alienation Syndrome"?
Part 12 Part III Some Forms that Bias Takes
Chapter 13 The Intersection of Racism and Sexism in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Chapter 14 Clinical Cases and the Intersection of Sexism and Racism
Chapter 15 Should Racism Be Classified As a Mental Illness?
Chapter 16 Ageism in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Chapter 17 The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children
Chapter 18 Confusing Terms and False Dichotomies in Learning Disabilities
Chapter 19 Diagnosis of Low-Income Women
Chapter 20 Seeking "Normal" Sexuality on a Complex Matrix
Chapter 21 Gender Bias and Sex Distribution of Mental Disorders in
DSM-IV-TR
Chapter 22 Mislabeling Anxiety and Depression in Rural Women
Part 23 Part IV Specific Labels
Chapter 24 Bias and Schizophrenia
Chapter 25 The Truth about "False Memory Syndrome"
Chapter 26 Reclaiming the Meanings of "Self-esteem"
Chapter 27 Agoraphobia
Chapter 28 Depression in women
Chapter 29 The "Eating-Disordered" Patient
Chapter 30 The Fine Line between Clinical and Subclinical Anorexia
Chapter 31 Histrionic Personality
Chapter 32 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 33 Some Gender Biases in Diagnosing Traumatized Women
Chapter 34 Medicalizing Menstrual Distress
Part 35 Part V Moving Ahead
Chapter 36 A New View of Women's Sexual Problems
Chapter 37 Resisting Diagnosis
Chapter 38 The Importance of Critical Inquiry
Chapter 39 Some Future Contenders