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Attachment and sibling rivalry in Little Hans: the fantasy of the two giraffes revisitedJerome C Wakefield
School of Social Work, New York University, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 55:821-49; discussion 851-2. 2007..The giraffe fantasy's attachment-theoretic explanation encourages a rethinking of this classic case and strengthens Bowlby's claim that the case is fruitfully viewed from an attachment perspective...
Little Hans and the thought police: the 'policeman fantasies' as the first reported supervisory transference fantasiesJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, New York University, 1 Washington Sq N, New York, NY 10003, USA
Int J Psychoanal 89:71-88. 2008..Moreover, this interpretation provides an answer to the central mystery of the two fantasies, which goes unaddressed by Freud 's oedipal interpretation: Who is the policeman?..- 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 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... - 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... - Misdiagnosing normality: Psychiatry's failure to address the problem of false positive diagnoses of mental disorder in a changing professional environmentJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, NY 10025, USA
J Ment Health 19:337-51. 2010..The problem has particular urgency because the DSM's symptom-based criteria are often applied in studies and screening instruments outside of the clinical context and by non-mental-health professionals... - Does the DSM-IV clinical significance criterion for major depression reduce false positives? Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationJerome C Wakefield
School of Social Work, Department of Psychiatry, and InSPIRES Institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives Research, Education and Services, New York University, New York, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:298-304. 2010..The authors empirically evaluated the criterion's effect on the prevalence of major depression in the community. This report also considers more broadly the relationship of symptoms to impairment in diagnosis... - Did narrowing the major depression bereavement exclusion from DSM-III-R to DSM-IV increase validity?: evidence from the National Comorbidity SurveyJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 199:66-73. 2011..Results of both tests indicated that the narrower DSM-IV criteria substantially decreased the exclusion's validity. These results suggest caution regarding the current proposal to eliminate the bereavement exclusion in DSM-5... - Little Hans and attachment theory: Bowlby's hypothesis reconsidered in light of new evidence from the Freud ArchivesJerome C Wakefield
New York University, NY, USA
Psychoanal Study Child 62:61-91. 2007..Bowlby's hypothesis is also placed within the context of subsequent developments in attachment theory... - Placing symptoms in context: the role of contextual criteria in reducing false positives in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnosesJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work, New York, NY 10003, USA
Compr Psychiatry 53:130-9. 2012..We, thus, systematically reviewed DSM categories to establish the extent of such uses of contextual criteria and created a typology of such uses... - False positives in psychiatric diagnosis: implications for human freedomJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, New York University, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY, 10003, USA
Theor Med Bioeth 31:5-17. 2010..The harmful dysfunction analysis of disorder is used to diagnose the sources of likely false positives, and propose potential remedies to the current weaknesses in the validity of diagnostic criteria... - Recurrence of depression after bereavement-related depression: evidence for the validity of DSM-IV bereavement exclusion from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area StudyJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 200:480-5. 2012.... - 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 - The perils of dimensionalization: challenges in distinguishing negative traits from personality disordersJerome C Wakefield
New York University, Silver School of Social Work, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY 10003, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 31:379-93, v. 2008..The DSM's most plausible suggestion for judging when traits are dysfunctions, inflexibility, is also problematic because many nondisordered traits are inflexible as well... - Sexual dysfunction or pain disorder?: dyspareunia from the perspective of the harmful dysfunction analysisJerome C Wakefield
New York University School of Social Work, 1 Washington Square North, New York, New York 10003
Arch Sex Behav 34:52-7, 57-61; author reply 63-7. 2005 - Max Graf's "Reminiscences of Professor Sigmund Freud" revisited: new evidence from the Freud archivesJerome C Wakefield
Psychoanal Q 76:149-92. 2007..The interviews place incidents reported in the article in a new and more complex light, and also underscore the intensely personal nature of the intellectual development of the psychoanalytic movement... - Should prolonged grief be reclassified as a mental disorder in DSM-5?: reconsidering the empirical and conceptual arguments for complicated grief disorderJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 200:499-511. 2012..Consequently, the proposal to add pathological grief categories to DSM-5 should be withdrawn pending further research to identify more valid criteria for diagnosing PGD... - When does depression become a disorder? Using recurrence rates to evaluate the validity of proposed changes in major depression diagnostic thresholdsJerome C Wakefield
Silver School of Social Work, New York University, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY InSPIRES Institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives Research, Education and Services, New York University, New York, NY Division of Clinical Phenomenology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
World Psychiatry 12:44-52. 2013.... - 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.... - Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-VRobert L Spitzer
Columbia University, USA
J Anxiety Disord 21:233-41. 2007..We believe the more stringent criteria express the intent of the PTSD category and will promote more effective research on whether that intent was legitimate or based on misconceptions... - 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... - 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