This forward-thinking volume grapples with critical questions surrounding the mechanisms underlying mental disorders and the systems used for classifying them. Edited and written by leading international authorities, many of whom are actively involved with the development of DSM-V and ICD-11, the book integrates biological and psychosocial perspectives. It provides balanced analyses of such hot-button issues as the role of social context and culture in psychopathology and the pros and cons of categorical versus dimensional approaches to diagnosis. Cutting-edge diagnostic instruments and research methods are reviewed. Throughout, contributors highlight the implications of current theoretical and empirical advances for understanding real-world clinical problems and developing more effective treatments. The book will be valuable for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers; researchers and graduate students across the mental health disciplines. It will also serve as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses such as Psychopathology, Abnormal Psychology, and Assessment and Diagnosis.
I. Historical and Cultural Perspectives 1. A Precis of Psychopathological History, Theodore Millon and Erik Simonsen 2. Themes in the Evolution of the 20th-Century DSMs, Roger K. Blashfield, Elizabeth Flanagan, and Kristin Raley 3. On the Wisdom of Considering Culture and Context in Psychopathology, Joseph P. Gone and Laurence J. Kirmayer 4. Cultural Issues in the Coordination of DSM-V and ICD-11, Renato D. Alarcon 5. A Sociocultural Conception of the Borderline Personality Disorder Epidemic, Theodore Millon II. Conceptual Issues in Classification 6. Philosophical Issues in the Classification of Psychopathology, Peter Zachar and Kenneth S. Kendler 7. Classification Considerations in Psychopathology and Personology, Theodore Millon 8. Diagnostic Taxa as Open Concepts: Metatheoretical and Statistical Questions about Reliability and Construct Validity in the Grand Strategy of Nosological Revision, Paul E. Meehl 9. Contemplations on Meehl (1986): The Territory, Paul's Map, and Our Progress in Psychopathology Classification (or, the Challenge of Keeping Up with a Beacon 30 Years Ahead of the Field), Mark F. Lenzenweger 10. Issues of Construct Validity in Psychological Diagnoses, Gregory T. Smith and Jessica Combs 11. The Meaning of Comorbidity among Common Mental Disorders, Nicholas R. Eaton, Susan C. South, and Robert F. Krueger 12. The Connections between Personality and Psychopathology, Susan C. South, Nicholas R. Eaton, and Robert F. Krueger 13. Is It True That Mental Disorders Are So Common, and So Commonly Co-Occur?, Mario Maj 14. Taking Disorder Seriously: A Critique of Psychiatric Criteria for Mental Disorders from the Harmful-Dysfunction Perspective, Jerome C. Wakefield III. Methodological Approaches to Categories, Dimensions, and Prototypes 15. On the Substantive Grounding and Clinical Utility of Categories versus Dimensions, William M. Grove and Scott I. Vrieze 16. A Short History of a Psychiatric Diagnostic Category That Turned Out to Be a Disease, Roger K. Blashfield and Jared Keeley 17. Concepts and Methods for Researching Categories and Dimensions in Psychiatric Diagnosis, Helena Chmura Kraemer 18. The Integration of Categorical and Dimensional Approaches to Psychopathology, Erik Simonsen 19. Dimensionalizing Existing Personality Disorder Categories, Andrew E. Skodol 20. An Empirically Based Prototype Diagnostic System for DSM-V and ICD-11, Kile M. Ortigo, Bekh Bradley, and Drew Westen 21. The Millon Personality Spectrometer: A Tool for Personality Spectrum Analyses, Diagnoses, and Treatments, Theodore Millon, Seth Grossman, and Robert Tringone IV. Innovative Theoretical and Empirical Proposals 22. Neuroscientific Foundations of Psychopathology, Christopher J. Patrick and Edward M. Bernat 23. Using Evolutionary Principles for Deducing Normal and Abnormal Personality Patterns, Theodore Millon 24. Biopsychosocial Models and Psychiatric Diagnosis, Joel Paris 25. Reactivating the Psychodynamic Approach to the Classification of Psychopathology, Sidney J. Blatt and Patrick Luyten 26. A Life Course Approach to Psychoses: Outcome and Cultural Variation, Rina Dutta & Robin M. Murray 27. The Interpersonal Nexus of Personality and Psychopathology, Aaron L. Pincus, Mark R. Lukowitsky, and Aidan G. C. Wright 28. Reconceptualizing Autism Spectrum Disorders as Autism-Specific Learning Disabilities and Styles, Bryna Siegel 29. Describing Relationship Patterns in DSM-V: A Preliminary Proposal, Marianne Z. Wamboldt, Steven R. H. Beach, Nadine J. Kaslow, Richard E. Heyman, Michael B. First, and David Reiss 30. On the Diversity of the Borderline Syndromes, Michael H. Stone
