Psychiatry's failure to validate its diagnostic constructs is often attributed to the prioritizing of
reliability over validity in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I …

Mental disorder (earlier entitled “illness” or “disease”) is ascribed to deviations from normal
thoughts, reasoning, feelings, attitudes, and actions that are considered socially or …

Effective and specifically targeted social and therapeutic responses for antisocial personality
disorders and psychopathy are scarce. Some authors maintain that this scarcity should be …

In this paper I seek to discuss the notion of “epistemic iteration” and its implications for
psychiatric nosology. In particular, I want to ask what we will have learned if we do achieve …

It is widely agreed that the DSM-IV categorical framework (and its predecessors) have a
number of problems (eg, questionable reliability in the field, questionable validity …

La inserción de la salud mental en una atención primaria (APS) integradora ha sido una
política exitosa para reducir la brecha en el tratamiento de personas que padecen …

Rosa Ritunnano and colleagues rightly point out that for the OPheP initiative to maximise its
potential, it must avoid the hard-learned pitfalls of the DSM and ICD projects. These have …

The goal of the present volume is to focus directly on research-related issues in this crisis
and to explore both the nature and sources of the crisis as well as whether and, if so, how, it …

The paper proposes that frameworks typical to metaphysics and art could be used in clinical
treatment in somatic and psychiatric contexts to ensure improved care. The concept of the …

Mathematically, the DDM is defined by a stochastic differential equation called the Wiener
process with drift: dW∼ N (v, σ2)(1) where v represents the drift-rate and σ the variance. As …