Psychiatry - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The DSM-V initiative "deconstructing psychosis" in the context of Kraepelin's concept on nosology.

30 May 2008 The revision process of the international psychiatric classification systems has started and is expected to result in new versions of the International Classification of Disorders (then ICD-11) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (then DSM-V) ... Read more...

Kraepelin, biological psychiatry, and beyond.

30 May 2008 One of Kraepelin's major contributions has been the introduction of the nosological principle in psychiatry. Mental pathology, he presumed, is subdividable in discrete entities each based on a specific pathophysiology. Kraepelin provided the ... Read more...

Historical overview: Kraepelin's impact on psychiatry.

30 May 2008 This paper reviews the importance Emil Kraepelin put on disease course as a classificatory principle. It then outlines the academic reception of Kraepelin's disease entities outside Germany, charts the uptake of his diagnostic concepts within ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychiatry - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The DSM-V initiative "deconstructing psychosis" in the context of Kraepelin's concept on nosology. 30 May 2008
• Kraepelin, biological psychiatry, and beyond. 30 May 2008
• Historical overview: Kraepelin's impact on psychiatry. 30 May 2008
• The work of Emil Kraepelin and his research group in München. 30 May 2008
• Diagnosis and course of affective psychoses: was Kraepelin right? 30 May 2008
• Systematic of psychiatric disorders between categorical and dimensional approaches: Kraepelin's dichotomy and beyond. 30 May 2008
• Kraepelin and degeneration theory. 30 May 2008
• Emil Kraepelin's legacy: systematic clinical observation and the categorical classification of psychiatric diseases. 30 May 2008
• Are psychiatrist characteristics associated with postdischarge suicide of schizophrenia patients? 14 Feb 2008
• Schizophrenia, psychiatric genetics, and Darwinian psychiatry: an evolutionary framework. 19 Nov 2007
• Lumping or splitting in diagnosis--what's the point? 30 Aug 2007
• Quest for culturally relevant classification in psychiatry. 30 Jan 2006
• [The psychopathology of Karl Jaspers: then and now] 30 Dec 2005
• Psychiatry and the human sciences. 30 May 2003
• Two registers of madness in Enlightenment Britain. Part 1. 29 Nov 2002
• A new subspecialty. 29 Nov 2002
• Diagnoses of patients treated with ECT: a comparison of evidence-based standards with reported use. 30 Jul 1999
• Classifications in psychiatry: a conceptual history. 30 Mar 1999
• Psychiatry in the framework of primary health care: a threat or boost to psychiatry? 30 May 1997
• What is psychiatry? 29 Apr 1997

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Technical information about 'Psychiatry'

Definition: The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.

Descriptor UI: D011570

Alternative terms: Psychiatry; Psychiatrists; Psychiatrist;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.544; H02.403.776.655;

Technical Notes: specialty only; do not confuse with MENTAL DISORDERS