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Diagnostic Interaction: First-Person Patient Narratives On Hacking's Looping Effects And The Normative Status Of Psychiatric Nosology, Corinne Jager
Diagnostic Interaction: First-Person Patient Narratives On Hacking's Looping Effects And The Normative Status Of Psychiatric Nosology, Corinne Jager
Honors College Theses
What is the interaction between a psychiatric patient and their diagnosis? How do they respond to being classified? A number of philosophical theories attempt to explain the interaction between the diagnosed patient and their classification. Ian Hacking develops an account of interaction which holds that objects of human science classification are influenced by the awareness of the classification in a way that changes both the classification and its object. Hacking thinks that psychiatric patients are “interactive kinds” whose awareness of their classification causes changes in the individuals' experience of themselves, and thus changes in their classification. Hacking claims that these …
The American Psychiatric Association’S Guideline For Major Depressive Disorder: A Commentary, Lisa Cosgrove, Allen F. Shaughnessy, Emily E. Wheeler, Kirsten E. Austad, Irving Kirsch, Harold J. Bursztajn
The American Psychiatric Association’S Guideline For Major Depressive Disorder: A Commentary, Lisa Cosgrove, Allen F. Shaughnessy, Emily E. Wheeler, Kirsten E. Austad, Irving Kirsch, Harold J. Bursztajn
Counseling and School Psychology Faculty Publication Series
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) published a new guideline for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) which will undoubtedly be used by many practitioners to guide clinical decision-making. In fact, it is non-psychiatrist clinicians who prescribe the majority of antidepressants (AD). We review the APA’s most recent guideline on MDD and report on our observations.