Cooper, Rachel (2012) Psychiatric classification and subjective experience. Emotion Review., 4 (2). pp. 197-202.
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This article does not directly consider the feelings and emotions that occur in mental illness. Rather, it concerns a higher level methodological question: To what extent is an analysis of feelings and felt emotions of importance for psychiatric classification? Some claim that producing a phenomenologically informed descriptive psychopathology is a prerequisite for serious taxonomic endeavor. Others think that classifications of mental disorders may ignore subjective experience. A middle view holds that classification should at least map the contours of the phenomenology of mental illness. This article examines these options. I conclude that it is not true that phenomenology is a logical prerequisite for classification, nor even that classification should necessarily respect phenomenological boundaries, but that detailed phenomenological examination can sometimes inform classification.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Emotion Review. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | classification ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ; international classification of diseases ; phenomenology ; Subjective experience |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Politics & International Relations (Merged into PPR 2010-08-01) |
| ID Code: | 50902 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 08 Nov 2011 15:13 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2013 14:20 |
| Identification Number: | |
| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/50902 |
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