Psychiatric Disorders Are Not Natural Kinds

By Peter Zachar. 2000

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• Diagnostic categories or dimensions? A question for the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders--fifth edition. (2005, background): “It is a well-reasoned and defensible selection that was informed by the impairments in functioning commonly associated with an IQ of 70 or below (Zachar, 2000).”
• Dimensions of Folk Psychiatry (2005, background): “Luhrmann (2000) ascribed these assumptions to a view of disorders as natural kinds, which Zachar (2000) and Haslam (2000, 2002b) challenged.”
• Comorbidity: A network perspective (2010, background): “…psychiatry and clinical psychology (Haslam 2000; Haslam & Ernst 2002; Jablensky 2007; Kendell 1975; Klein 1978; Krueger & Markon 2006b; Lilienfeld & Marino 1999; Richters & Hinshaw 1999; Spitzer 1973; 1999; Spitzer & Endicott 1978; Wakefield 1992; 1999a; 1999b; Zachar 2000; Zachar & Kendler 2007).”