Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology

This forward-thinking volume grapples with critical questions surrounding the mechanisms underlying mental disorders and the systems used for classifying them. Edited and written by leading international authorities, many of whom are actively involved with the development of DSM-V and ICD-11, the book integrates biological and psychosocial perspectives. It provides balanced analyses of such hot-button issues as the role of social context and culture in psychopathology and the pros and cons of categorical versus dimensional approaches to diagnosis. Cutting-edge diagnostic instruments and research methods are reviewed. Throughout, contributors highlight the implications of current theoretical and empirical advances for understanding real-world clinical problems and developing more effective treatments.The book will be valuable for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers; researchers and graduate students across the mental health disciplines. It will also serve as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses such as Psychopathology, Abnormal Psychology, and Assessment and Diagnosis.

Theodore Millon, PhD, DSc, is Dean and Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders and inaugural president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD). Dr. Millon has held full professorial appointments at Harvard Medical School, the University of Illinois, and the University of Miami. A prolific author, he has written or edited more than 30 books on theory, assessment, and therapy, as well as more than 200 articles and book chapters. Dr. Millon is the recipient of the 2008 American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology. Robert F. Krueger, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. His major research interests lie at the intersection of personality, psychopathology, psychometrics, and behavioral genetics. Dr. Krueger has received a number of awards, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution and the American Psychological Foundation’s Theodore Millon Award for midcareer contributions to personality psychology. Erik Simonsen, MD, is Director of Psychiatric Research in Region Zealand, Denmark; Director of the Institute of Personality Theory and Psychopathology; and Associate Research Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on personality disorders, first-episode psychosis, personality assessment, outcome of psychotherapy, and psychiatric classification. Dr. Simonsen is past president of the ISSPD and a recipient of the ISSPD Award. He has also served as president of the Section on Personality Disorders of the World Psychiatric Association.

Historical and Cultural Perspectives
A Précis of Psychopathological History	p. 3
Themes in the Evolution of the 20th-century DSMs	p. 53
On the Wisdom of Considering Culture and Context in Psychopathology	p. 72
Cultural Issues in the Coordination of DSM-V and ICD-11	p. 97
A Sociocultural Conception of the Borderline Personality Disorder Epidemic	p. 111
Conceptual Issues in Classification
Philosophical Issues in the Classification of Psychopathology	p. 127
Classification Considerations in Psychopathology and Personology	p. 149
Diagnostic Taxa as Open Concepts: Metatheoretical and Statistical Questions about Reliability and Construct Validity in the Grand Strategy of Nosological Revision	p. 174
Contemplations on Meehl (1986): The Territory, Paul's Map, and Our Progress in Psychopathology Classification (or, the Challenge of Keeping Up with a Beacon 30 Years Ahead of the Field)	p. 187
Issues of Construct Validity in Psychological Diagnoses	p. 205
The Meaning of Comorbidity among Common Mental Disorders	p. 223
The Connections between Personality and Psychopathology	p. 242
Is It True That Mental Disorders Are So Common, and So Commonly Co-Occur?	p. 263
Taking Disorder Seriously: A Critique of Psychiatric Criteria for Mental Disorders from the Harmful-Dysfunction Perspective	p. 275
Methodological Approaches to Categories, Dimensions, and Prototypes
On the Substantive Grounding and Clinical Utility of Categories versus Dimensions	p. 303
A Short History of a Psychiatric Diagnostic Category That Turned Out to Be a Disease	p. 324
Concepts and Methods for Researching Categories and Dimensions in Psychiatric Diagnosis	p. 337
The Integration of Categorical and Dimensional Approaches to Psychopathology	p. 350
Dimensionalizing Existing Personality Disorder Categories	p. 362
An Empirically Based Prototype Diagnostic System for DSM-V and ICD-11	p. 374
The Millon Personality Spectrometer: A Tool for Personality Spectrum Analyses, Diagnoses, and Treatments	p. 391
Innovative Theoretical and Empirical Proposals
Neuroscientific Foundations of Psychopathology	p. 419
Using Evolutionary Principles for Deducing Normal and Abnormal Personality Patterns	p. 453
Biopsychosocial Models and Psychiatric Diagnosis	p. 473
Reactivating the Psychodynamic Approach to the Classification of Psychopathology	p. 483
A Life Course Approach to Psychoses: Outcome and Cultural Variation	p. 515
The Interpersonal Nexus of Personality and Psychopathology	p. 523
Reconceptualizing Autism Spectrum Disorders as Autism-Specific Learning Disabilities and Styles	p. 553
Describing Relationship Patterns in DSM-V: A Preliminary Proposal	p. 565
On the Diversity of the Borderline Syndromes	p. 577
Author Index	p. 595
Subject Index	p. 607
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Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology Scientific Foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

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