A few extra items concerned with how we conceptualize and diagnose mental health problems

 

Burstow, B. (2005) A critique of post-traumatic stress disorder and DSM, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 45,(4): 429-455.

 

Everett, B. (1994) Something is happening: The contemporary consumer and psychiatric survivor movement in historical context, Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 15, (1-2), 55-70.

 

Garfinkel, H. (1956) Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies, The American Journal of Sociology, 61, (5): 420-424.

 

Hopton, J. (2006) The future of critical psychiatry, Critical Social Policy, 26, (1): 57-73.

 

Jones, D.W. (2002) Madness, the family and psychiatry, Critical Social Policy, 22, (2): 247–272.

 

Kessler, R.C., Berglund, P., Demler, O., Jin, R., Merikangas, K.R. and Walters, E.E. (2005) Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, Archives of General Psychiatry, 62: 593-602.

 

McPherson, S.& Armstrong, D. (2009) Negotiating ‘depression’ in primary care: A qualitative study, Social Science & Medicine 69: 1137–1143.

 

Mirowsky, J. (1990) Subjective boundaries and combinations in psychiatric diagnosis, Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 11, (3 & 4), 407-424.

 

Pam, A. (1994) The new schizophrenia: Diagnosis and dynamics of the homeless mentally ill, Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 15, (3), 199-222. 

 

Pilgrim, D. (2002) The biopsychosocial model in Anglo-American psychiatry: Past, present and future? Journal of Mental Health, 11, (6): 585–594.

 

Pilgrim, D., & Bentall, R. (1999) The medicalisation of misery: a critical realist analysis of the concept of depression. Journal of Mental Health, 8(3), 261–274.

 

Pilgrim, D. & Rogers, A. (2009) Survival and its discontents: the case of British psychiatry, Sociology of Health & Illness, 31: 947–961.

 

Verhaak, P.F.M., Schellevis, F.G., Nuijen, J. and Volkers, A.C. (2006) Patients with a psychiatric disorder in general practice: determinants of general practitioners’ psychological diagnosis, General Hospital Psychiatry, 28: 125–132.

 

Woolfolk, R. (2001) The Concept of Mental Illness: An Analysis of Four Pivotal Issues The Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 22, (2), 161-178.

 

Zachar, P. (2000) Psychiatric disorders are not natural kinds, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 7, (3): 167-182.