Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds

Contents

Contents Preface ix 1 Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds 1 Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline Sullivan 2 Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing 11 Nick Haslam 3 Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification 29 Jeffrey Poland 4 Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds: A Conceptual Framework 65 Dan J. Stein 5 Beyond Natural Kinds: Toward a “Relevant” “Scientific” Taxonomy in Psychiatry 75 Peter Zachar 6 Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry 105 Dominic Murphy 7 Being a Mental Disorder 123 George Graham 8 Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology 145 Harold Kincaid 9 Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific Consequences 175 Nancy Nyquist Potter viii Contents 10 Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study 195 Don Ross 11 The Social Functions of Natural Kinds: The Case of Major Depression 209 Allan Horwitz 12 The Missing Self in Hacking’s Looping Effects 227 Şerife Tekin 13 Stabilizing Mental Disorders: Prospects and Problems 257 Jacqueline Sullivan List of Contributors 283 Index 285 ...