Diagnostic psychiatry

Despite the eventual failure of the medication, Mike s taste of drug success solidified his commitment to a biomedical view of his illness. His experience was profound enough to foster his belief in what the sociologist Allan Horwitz has called diagnostic psychiatry, with its unflinching commitment to biochemical solutions. Such a belief system is nearly always the backdrop for years of experimentation with a series of medications. ... 

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Psychiatric treatment of new illnesses has accelerated since the 1980s. Whereas psychiatry traditionally had been dominated by a psychodynamic perspective on illness, the field has turned its back on that tradition in favor of predominantly biological definitions of mental illness. Critics of this shift focus their attention on the social factors that have led psychiatrists to the prescription pad. One can only express wonderment at the discovery of so many new brain diseases since 1980. The bible of psychiatric diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has now been revised three times since 1953, most recently in 1994. The first two editions classified illnesses in accordance with the psychodynamic model prevalent at the time. Conditions warranting psychiatric treatment were understood as disorders of the mind. Then, in the 1980s, the language of psychotherapeutic disorder abruptly disappeared and was replaced by... 

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