Bookedited by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas.
Summary: The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the questions of nosology. This book reviews issues within psychiatric nosology from clinical, historical and particularly philosophical perspectives. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished authors.
Contents:
Part I. Nature of psychiatric illness
Part II. Reification, epidemics, and individual symptoms
Part III. Epistemic iteration
Part IV. Descriptive to etiologic and living document.