Should comprehensive diagnosis include idiographic understanding?
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Should comprehensive diagnosis include idiographic understanding?
The World Psychiatric Association has emphasised the importance of idiographic understanding as a distinct component of comprehensive assessment but in introductions to the idea it is often assimilated to the notion of narrative judgement. This paper aims to distinguish between supposed idiographic and narrative judgement. Taking the former to mean a kind of individualised judgement, I argue th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1386-7423,1572-8633
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-007-9117-8