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The DSM-5 in Perspective

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For several decades the DSM has been nicknamed “The Psychiatric Bible.” This volume would like to suggest another biblical metaphor: the Tower of Babel. Altogether, the essays in this volume describe the DSM as an imperfect and unachievable monument – a monument that was originally built to celebrate the new unity of clinical psychiatric discourse, but that ended up creating, as a result of its hubris, ever more profound practical divisions and theoretical difficulties.

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History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences

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Cham : Springer., 2015

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XXIV, 238

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English

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978-94-017-9765-8

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text

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computer

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Philosophy of Biology

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Editors Steeves Demazeux, Patrick Singy

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Jemadi

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