Psychiatric Diagnosis: Challenges and Prospects

Improved diagnostic systems are necessary to enhance clinical care, teaching and research. Written by leading experts in the field, this book provides broad, integrated coverage of psychiatric diagnosis from historical and conceptual roots to novel diagnostic approaches.

Divided into four accessible sections, the book covers:

Concepts of mental health and illness around the world from historical, philosophical and cultural perspectives. Health is approached comprehensively, to include such aspects as resilience, resources and quality of life Major specific psychopathology topics, including new categorizations and dimensional approaches The complex problem of comorbidity in mental and general health, a major challenge for modern diagnostic classifications in psychiatry Emerging international diagnostic systems in psychiatry, considering innovative models and adaptations

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Challenges and Prospects presents innovative and helpful models for improved evaluation and care and should be read by all mental health professionals, as well as practising clinicians, researchers and postgraduate students in psychiatry and psychology.

List of contributors

Preface

SECTION I CONCEPTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND HEALTH ACROSS THE WORLD

1 Historical Roots of the Concept of Mental Illness

Paul Hoff

2 Philosophical Perspectives on Health, Illness and Clinical Judgement in Psychiatry and Medicine

Tim Thornton, KWM (Bill) Fulford and George Christodoulou

3 Culture and Mental Illness: Social Context and Explanatory Models

Laurence J. Kirmayer and Dinesh Bhugra

4 Quality of Life in Illness and Health

Heinz Katschnig, Raluca Sfetcu and Norman Sartorius

5 Recovery and Resilience

Michaela Amering and Margit Schmolke

6 Positive Health and Health Promotion: The WPA Institutional Programme of Psychiatry for the Person in a European Public Health Perspective

Wolfgang Rutz

SECTION II PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

7 Dementia

Olusegun Baiyewu

8 Schizophrenia and Related Disorders

Wolfgang Gaebel and Jürgen Zielasek

9 Mood Disorders

Marna S. Barrett and Michael E. Thase

10 Anxiety and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorders

Juan J. López–Ibor, Jr and María Inés López–Ibor

11 Substance–Use Disorders

Christian Haasen, Nady el–Guebaly and Ihsan M. Salloum

12 Advances in Diagnosis and Classification of Sexual Disorders

Rubén Hernández Serrano, Antonio Pacheco Palha, Said Abdel Azim, Chiara Simonelli, Felipe Navarro Cremades and Aminta Parra

13 Personality Disorders

Giles Newton–Howes and Peter Tyrer

14 Intellectual Disabilities

Sally–Ann Cooper and Luis Salvador–Carulla

15 Specificities of Diagnosis and Classification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Michel Botbol and Carlos E. Berganza

16 Classification in Infant and Child Psychiatry

Sam Tyano and Lior Schapir

17 Peri–Natal Mental Disorders

Ian Brockington, John Cox, Nicole Garret–Gloanec and Gisèle Apter Denon

18 Suicide

Zoltán Rihmer

SECTION III COMORBIDITY IN MENTAL AND

GENERAL HEALTH

19 Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in Comorbidity

Ihsan M. Salloum, Juan E. Mezzich and Sandra E. Cordoba

20 Mental and General Health Comorbidities in Persons Presenting in Primary Care

Michael S. Klinkman and Linda Gask

21 Comorbidity, Positive Health, and Integration of Services

Juan E. Mezzich and Ihsan M. Salloum

SECTION IV DIAGNOSTIC MODELS

22 The Validity of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Etiopathogenic and Clinical Approaches

Kenneth F. Schaffner

23 The Overall Development of ICD–11

T. Bedirhan Üstün and Robert Jakobü

24 The Revision of ICD Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Shekhar Saxena and Benedetto Saraceno

25 Experience with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Preparations for the Future

Michael B. First

26 Experience and Implications of the Latin American Guide for Psychiatric Diagnosis

Ángel Otero–Ojeda and Carlos E. Berganza

27 Chinese Classification and its Future Perspectives

Yanfang Chen and Zhong Chen

28 Multiaxial Schemas for Psychiatric Diagnosis

Claudio E. M. Banzato, Miguel Roberto Jorge and Marianne Kastrup

29 The Science of Well–Being and Comprehensive Diagnosis

C. Robert Cloninger

30 Towards a Person–centred Integrative Diagnosis

Juan E. Mezzich and Ihsan M. Salloum

Index

Ihsan M. Salloum, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Alcohol and

Substance Abuse:Treatment and Research, University of Miami Miller School of

Medicine, FL, USA; Section on Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and

Nomenclature, World Psychiatric Association

Juan E. Mezzich, Past President, World Psychiatric Association

Professor of Psychiatry and Director,Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology,

International Center for Mental Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,

New York University, NY, USA