Tag
Psychiatry
Entries tagged psychiatry.
2 entries
Concept
Psychiatric Classification
The project of sorting mental suffering into named, criteria-based categories, useful enough to build a field on and contested at every level, from whether clinicians agree on it to whether the categories are real.
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ConceptThe Biopsychosocial Model
Illness and disorder arise from biology, psychology, and social circumstance interacting at every level, and diathesis-stress spells out the mechanism: a vulnerability that only becomes disorder under enough strain.
8 min