Psychiatric diagnosis and psychological therapy

The development of diagnostic systems within psychiatry and their widespread use within the medical profession has led to their historical adoption within clinical psychology. For example a recent survey funded by the Higher Education Academy Psychology Network (Cromby et al., in press) found that the vast majority ot undergraduate courses use textbooks following the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This leads to very outdated critiques of psychiatry and a failure to develop a specifically psychological approach to peoples problems.

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References & Bibliography


Books

 * American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed). Washington, DC: Author
 * Bracken. P & Thomas. P (2005) Postpychiatry Mental health in a post modern world. Oxford: Oxford University Press
 * Boyle,M. (2002) Schizophrenia:A Scientific Delusion. London Routledge
 * Kirk, S A & Kutchins,H.(l992).The selling of DSM: The rhetoric of science in psychiatry. New York Aldine de Gruyter
 * Kutchins. H & Kirk, S.A. (1997). Making us crazy: DSM - and the creation of mental disorders . New York The Free Press

Papers
Moncrieff, Joanna (2007) Diagnosis and drug treatment. The Psychologist,20,5,296-298
 * Boyle,M. (2007) The problem of diagnosis. The Psychologist, 20,5, 290-292
 * Cromby, J., Harper, D. & Reavey, R (2007). Mental health teaching to UK psychology undergraduates Report of a survey. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.

Books

 * Scull,A (1979) Museums of madness: The social organisation of insanity in nineteenth ceniury England London: Allen Lane.

Papers

 * Google Scholar