In a cohort of 50,465 Swedish men conscripted for military service in 1969-70, the relative risk for suicide was 3.1 (95% Cl 2.3-4.0) among those who had a psychiatric diagnosis at conscription, and 16.7 (95% Cl 13.8-20.1) among those who had a psychiatric diagnosis in in-patient care during a 13-year follow-up. Of the diagnoses at conscription, only neurotic disorder, personality disorder and ...

British society is becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. This poses a major challenge to mental health services charged with the responsibility to work in ways that respect cultural and linguistic difference. In this paper we investigate the problems of interpretation in the diagnosis of depression using a thought experiment to demonstrate important features of language-g...

Confidence in the assignment of lifetime psychiatric diagnosis is of great importance to genetic studies of psychiatric illness. To establish the credibility of a lifetime psychiatric history obtained via a structured interview, two paradigms were constructed to estimate reproducibility of the interview recording process. The first paradigm, simultaneous coding, was used to test comparability o...

Diagnostic Sedition: Re-Considering the Ascension and Hegemony of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnosis Richard Lakeman DNSci & John Cutcliffe PhD To cite this article: Richard Lakeman DNSci & John Cutcliffe PhD (2016) Diagnostic Sedition: ReConsidering the Ascension and Hegemony of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnosis, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 37:2, 125-130 To link to this article: http://d...

Whatever one's attitude toward the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), it is a book that is hard to ignore. In the popular press, it is frequently described as the psychiatrists' bible, although this metaphor is probably only apt if psychiatrists are given the role of skeptical priests. They were trained with it, they have to use it in...

Diagnosis in psychiatry is portrayed as the same type of activity as diagnosis in other areas of medicine. However, the notion that psychiatric conditions are equivalent to physical diseases has been contested for several decades. In this paper, I use the work of Jeff Coulter and David Ingelby to explore the role of diagnosis in routine psychiatric practice. Coulter examined the process of iden...

Background: To date, a diagnosis in psychiatry is largely based on a clinical interview and questionnaires. The retrospective and subjective nature of these methods leads to recall and interviewer biases. Therefore, there is a clear need for more objective and standardized assessment methods to support the diagnostic process. The introduction of virtual reality (VR) creates the possibility to s...

The remix of psychiatric nosology, according to the DSM-V, unfortunately missed to reconsider the classification of substance-related syndromes, and somehow define the limits of the dual diagnosis world. Since its birth, the expression (dual diagnosis) received strong criticism for failing to distinguish between concurrent illnesses, drug-induced syndromes and epiphenomenic substance use as a s...

This paper discusses the role of gender role conformity in psychiatric determinants of well-being after of the depathologization of homosexuality from the DSM. In order to examine the heterosexualizing of sanity in U.S. psychiatric and popular cultures, we analyze archived psychiatrist-dictated patient charts from outpatient psychiatric clinics from a Midwestern medical center (n = 45). We high...