The diagnosis of mental disorders: the problem of reification.

By S. Hyman. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacology, Philosophy

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Richard J. McNally
2. A. Cramer
3. Christopher J. Hopwood
4. Robert Krueger
5. Michael J Frank
6. H.L.J. van der Maas
7. Kristian E. Markon
8. Lourens J. Waldorp

In Pharmacology

1. Richard J. McNally
2. Michael J Frank
3. Quentin J. M. Huys
4. Tiago V. Maia
5. E. Nestler
6. Geoffrey M. Reed
7. Aidan G. C. Wright
8. Robert Krueger

In Philosophy

1. Richard J. McNally
2. Quentin J. M. Huys
3. Tiago V. Maia
4. Michael J Frank
5. A. Cramer
6. Geoffrey M. Reed
7. D. Johnston
8. Tim Dalgleish

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• Animal Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders (2010, background): “As a result, the boundaries between DSM-IVTR disorders and the boundaries between disorder and normal variation are often arbitrary or haz”
• Reenvisioning Clinical Science: Unifying the Discipline to Improve the Public Health (2014, neutral): “These advances in developing behavioral treatments are especially impressive given that each of these treatments attempts to address seemingly discrete, albeit often overlapping diagnostic categories (Hyman, 2010).”
• Understanding interpersonal trauma in children: why we need a developmentally appropriate trauma diagnosis. (2012, background): “However, the goal is to advance research and clinical work, rather than the ‘‘reification of diagnosis’’ (Hyman, 2010).”
• Annual research review: A meta-analysis of the worldwide prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents. (2015, background): “In addition, it prompted the field’s attention to the limitations of current nosological schemes in capturing mental disorders and the need to move beyond them (Angold & Costello, 1995, 2009; Bird, 1996; Brandenburg et al., 1990; Brauner & Stephens, 2006; Buka et al., 2002; Costello et al., 2005; Du”
• Coping, Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta-Analysis and Narrative Review (2017, background): “After a longstanding debate regarding the structure of psychopathology, a significant shift has occurred in the conceptualization of psychopathology, with recognition that symptoms of disorder occur both on continua as well as in discrete categories (Hyman, 2010; Rutter et al., 2011).”
• Identifying phenotypic signatures of neuropsychiatric disorders from electronic medical records. (2013, background): “1 Some have argued that even the extensively updated DSM-V ( fi fth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ) does little to address the need of an objective approach to disease classi fi cation.”
• Mental Disorders as Causal Systems (2015, background): “In fact, a recent director of the National Institute of Mental Health wondered whether DSM diagnoses are mere reifications, not labels for genuine medical conditions (Hyman, 2010).”
• Definition and description of schizophrenia in the DSM-5. (2013, background): “The validity of our construct of schizophrenia has, however, been increasingly drawn into question (Hyman, 2010; Insel, 2010).”
• The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies (2017, neutral): “Indeed, the sluggish pace of discovery in psychiatry has been attributed, in part, to the limited validity and certain arbitrariness of traditional diagnoses (Cuthbert & Insel, 2013; Gould & Gottesman, 2006; Hasler et al., 2005; Hyman, 2010; Merikangas & Risch, 2003).”
• Transdiagnostic Approaches to Mental Health Problems: Current Status and Future Directions (2020, background): “The diagnostic systems that they enshrine have created a form of “epistemic prison” (Hyman, 2010) that constrains health insurance and pharmaceutical industry practices, is sanctioned and supported by government and legal policies, and dominates social and public discourse about mental health and il”
• DSM-5 and the Path Toward Empirically Based and Clinically Useful Conceptualization of Personality and Psychopathology (2014, positive): “As emphasized by DSM-5 PD workgroup chair Andrew Skodol (Skodol, Morey, Bender, & Oldham, 2013), and also by former NIMH director Steven Hyman (2010) with respect to the reification of DSM-IV categories more broadly, “it is time to move on.””
• Toward ICD-11: Improving the Clinical Utility of WHO's International Classification of Mental Disorders (2010, background): “2005), but it has stifled others, such as studies of common mechanisms or treatment effectiveness across disorder groupings (Hyman, 2010; Insel et al., 2010).”
• Comorbidity: A network perspective (2010, background): “The network perspective also provides an appealing rationale for paying attention to symptoms as phenomena that matter in themselves rather than merely being superficial and causally impotent markers of reified “disease entities” (Hyman 2010).”
• Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC (2013, background): “The problems have been extensively documented (for example, [14-18]) and do not need to be”
• Can network analysis transform psychopathology? (2016, background): “Another former NIMH director had already opined that most DSM disorders are little more than reified labels (Hyman, 2010), not genuine diseases.”