Categorical taxonomy Flashcards
Emil Kraepelin
grondlegger classificatie psych
symptoms were indicators that could help differentiate between distinct mental disorders, rather than viewing them in isolation
skinner
How have these symptoms been shaped through conditioning.
neo kraepelian revolution
There was critique on reliability of diagnosis and authority of psychiatrists. DSM3 in 1980. This version became much more relevant and useful. Then in 1994 the DSM4 was published.
reasons for dsm
common language
make treatment possible (insurance)
generate hypotheses, prognosis etc
5 part framework
classification
people
experts
institutions
knowledge
issues DSM
stigma
reification
commodification
essentialism
looping effect
categories change people and these altered people in turn, reshape the categories.
making up people
Many classifications don’t identify existing groups but actively create new ways of being a person
ten mechanisms by which new types of people are created
counting
quanitifying
creating norms
correlating
biologising
medicalising
geneticising
normalising
bureaucratising
resistance
6 step differential diagnostics