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Lowered estimates--but of what?Jerome C Wakefield
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, 30 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:129-30. 2002- When is development disordered? Developmental psychopathology and the harmful dysfunction analysis of mental disorderJ C Wakefield
Rutgers University, USA
Dev Psychopathol 9:269-90. 1997..It is argued that the harmful dysfunction analysis is a necessary supplement to other proposed criteria for disorder, such as developmental deviation or predictive validity... - Dysfunction as a factual component of disorderJerome C Wakefield
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 30 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Behav Res Ther 41:969-90. 2003..Houts' value account of disorder is inconsistent with people's classificatory judgments, as his own examples demonstrate... - Should the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder consider social context?Jerome C Wakefield
School of Social Work and Institute of Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:380-6. 2002.... - The myth of DSM's invention of new categories of disorder: Houts's diagnostic discontinuity thesis disconfirmedJ C Wakefield
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Behav Res Ther 39:575-624. 2001..I conclude that DSM category increases are comparable in nature to ICD category increases, and that the invention-of-disorder account cannot explain the vast majority of such increases... - Evolutionary history versus current causal role in the definition of disorder: reply to McNallyJ C Wakefield
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Behav Res Ther 39:347-66. 2001.... - The DSM's theory-neutral nosology is scientifically progressive: response to Follette and Houts (1996)J C Wakefield
School of Social Work, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 66:846-52. 1998.... - The concept of disorder as a foundation for the DSM's theory-neutral nosology: response to Follette and Houts, Part 2J C Wakefield
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Behav Res Ther 37:1001-27. 1999..1996a). Special section on the development of theoretically coherent alternatives to the DSM system. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 1117-1201] is incoherent because it does not distinguish disorder from nondisorder... - Philosophy of science and the progressiveness of the DSM's theory-neutral nosology: response to Follette and Houts, Part 1J C Wakefield
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Behav Res Ther 37:963-99. 1999.... - Mental disorder as a black box essentialist conceptJ C Wakefield
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 108:465-72. 1999..The foundations of the HDA are clarified by providing a black box essentialist analysis (H. Putnam, 1975; J. C. Wakefield, 1997, in press) of the concept of natural function that underlies the concept of disorder... - Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorderJ C Wakefield
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 108:374-99. 1999..A series of conceptual experiments demonstrates the superior explanatory power of the HD analysis and disconfirms the Roschian account... - DSM-IV diagnostic criterion for clinical significance: does it help solve the false positives problem?R L Spitzer
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 156:1856-64. 1999..This article examines whether the clinical significance criterion achieves its purpose and considers its broader impact on diagnostic validity... - The lay concept of conduct disorder: do nonprofessionals use syndromal symptoms or internal dysfunction to distinguish disorder from delinquency?Jerome C Wakefield
School of Social Work, New York University, NY 10003, USA
Can J Psychiatry 51:210-7. 2006..However, there are almost no data on lay conceptualizations. Thus it remains unknown whether judgments about CD are anchored in a broadly shared understanding of mental disorder that provides a basis for professional-lay consensus... - Personality disorder as harmful dysfunction: DSM'S cultural deviance criterion reconsideredJerome C Wakefield
New York University, USA
J Pers Disord 20:157-69; discussion 181-5. 2006..The CDR is thus argued to be an indicator of whether an individual's personality organization is due to an evolutionary dysfunction. Value relativity and evolutionary analysis thus converge... - Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: evidence from the National Comorbidity SurveyJerome C Wakefield
School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:433-40. 2007..However, the DSM does not similarly exempt depressive reactions to other losses, even when they are uncomplicated in duration and severity... - Are we overpathologizing the socially anxious? Social phobia from a harmful dysfunction perspectiveJerome C Wakefield
School of Social Work, New York University, New York, USA
Can J Psychiatry 50:317-9. 2005 - Are there relational disorders? A harmful dysfunction perspective: comment on the special sectionJerome C Wakefield
School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:423-7. 2006..Indeed, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) currently misclassifies some sexual relational disorders as individual disorders...