Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds (Paperback)

Preface ix
1 Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds 1
Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline Sullivan
2 Natural Kinds in Psychiatry: Conceptually Implausible, Empirically Questionable, and Stigmatizing 11
Nick Haslam
3 Deeply Rooted Sources of Error and Bias in Psychiatric Classification 29
Jeffrey Poland
4 Psychopharmacology and Natural Kinds: A Conceptual Framework 65
Dan J. Stein
5 Beyond Natural Kinds: Toward a “ Relevant ” “ Scientific ”Taxonomy in Psychiatry 75
Peter Zachar
6 Natural Kinds in Folk Psychology and in Psychiatry 105
Dominic Murphy
7 Being a Mental Disorder 123
George Graham
8 Defensible Natural Kinds in the Study of Psychopathology 145
Harold Kincaid
9 Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Cultural Factors That Influence Interpretations of Defiant Behavior and Their Social and Scientific
Consequences 175
Nancy Nyquist Potter
10 Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study 195
Don Ross
11 The Social Functions of Natural Kinds: The Case of Major Depression 209
Allan Horwitz
12 The Missing Self in Hacking’s Looping Effects 227
Şerife Tekin
13 Stabilizing Mental Disorders: Prospects and Problems 257
Jacqueline Sullivan
List of Contributors 283
Index 285