Vice and Psychiatric Diagnosis outlines the implications of vice concepts being incorporated into psychiatric diagnosis and clinical practice, leading to some o

In this work, John Z. Sadler examines the nature and significance for practice of the value-content of psychiatric diagnostic classification.

Vice and Psychiatric Diagnosis begins with the simple question of why some categories of mental disorder include immoral or criminal conduct as diagnostic featu

Blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in almost every publication concerned with the classification of mental disorde

"This book, now revised in a section edition, examines the problem of over-diagnosis in psychiatry, focusing on problems with current diagnostic systems. It wil