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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis

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ISBN-10: 0765700018

ISBN-13: 9780765700018

Edition: 2004

Authors: Paula J. Caplan, Lisa Cosgrove, Maureen McHugh, Alisha Ali, Louise Armstrong

List price: $63.00
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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book about how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into psychiatric categories. This is a hot topic addressed to the public's right to know, especially because the negative consequences of psychiatric diagnosis range from loss of custody of a child to denial of health insurance and employment to removal of one's right to make decisions about one's legal affairs.
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Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.11" wide x 9.22" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Paula J. Caplan, a clinical and research psychologist, is an Affiliate at Harvard University's DuBois Institute and a Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of The Myth of Women's Masochism, They Say You're Crazy: How the World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal, and eight other books. Her articles, essays, and op-eds have appeared in both scholarly and popular publications.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Is This Really Necessary?
The Creation of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Construction of Illness
The Deep Structure of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Creating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Study of the History, Sociology, and Politics of Psychiatric Classification
Abnormal Psychology Textbooks Exclude Feminist Criticism of the DSM
Legal Implications of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Legal System
Bias and Subjectivity in Diagnosing Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases
What Is It That's Being Called "Parental Alienation Syndrome"?
Some Forms That Bias Takes
The Intersection of Racism and Sexism in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Clinical Cases and the Intersection of Sexism and Racism
Should Racism Be Classified As a Mental Illness?
Ageism in Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Psychiatric Policing of Children
Confusing Terms and False Dichotomies in Learning Disabilities
Diagnosis of Low-Income Women
Seeking "Normal" Sexuality on a Complex Matrix
Gender Bias and Sex Distribution of Mental Disorders in the DSM-IV-TR
Mislabeling Anxiety and Depression in Rural Women
Specific Labels
Bias and Schizophrenia
The Truth about "False Memory Syndrome"
Reclaiming the Meanings of "Self-esteem"
Agoraphobia
Depression in Women
The "Eating-Disordered" Patient
The Fine Line between Clinical and Subclinical Anorexia
Histrionic Personality
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Some Gender Biases in Diagnosing Traumatized Women
Medicalizing Menstrual Distress
Moving Ahead
A New View of Women's Sexual Problems
Resisting Diagnosis
The Importance of Critical Inquiry
Some Future Contenders
Index
About the Contributors