PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Neurosis, Personality Disorder, Psych
15 Jun 2013
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Based on icd-6, who: un-useful for physicians due to brief overview of mostly physical diseases. Psychoses: loss of contact or understanding with reality, inability to know who you were, where you were, when you were, ex. Neuroses: no psychotic symptoms, no significant loss with contact with reality, 106 categories in 130 pages intended to: Help clinicians use a consistent set to assign labels to symptoms in the same ways and the same criteria, more reliable diagnosis. Provide common language for people in the field to use. Reduced psychodynamic bias especially of neurosis disorders. Atheoretical - no psychodynamic bias, more towards a biomedical, or medical model of disorder focus on genetic, physiological. 1994: dsm-iv fewer differences with icd-10 (1992) Descriptive test updated: more information, textual description. 2012: dsm-v listed all the changes they were planning on making and allowed comments on the proposed changes. Release of the text has been postponed.
