The epistemological significance of possession entering the DSM
| Autor: | Craig Stephenson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Psychiatry
Nosology Dialogic Culture Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative Disorders History 20th Century Possession (law) medicine.disease Multiple Personality Disorder Epistemology Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Knowledge medicine Humans Mandate Sociology Dissociative disorders Association (psychology) Positivism |
| Zdroj: | History of Psychiatry. 26:251-269 |
| ISSN: | 1740-2360 0957-154X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0957154x14562748 |
| Popis: | The discourse of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM reflects the inherently dialogic or contradictory nature of its stated mandate to demonstrate both ‘nosological completeness’ and cultural ‘inclusiveness’. Psychiatry employs the dialogic discourse of the DSM in a one-sided, positivistic manner by identifying what it considers universal mental disease entities stripped of their cultural context. In 1992 the editors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders proposed to introduce possession into their revisions. A survey of the discussions about introducing ‘possession’ as a dissociative disorder to be listed in the DSM-IV indicates a missed epistemological break. Subsequently the editors of the DSM-5 politically ‘recuperated’ possession into its official discourse, without acknowledging the anarchic challenges that possession presents to psychiatry as a cultural practice. |
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