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Category: Is Schizophrenia a Diagnostic Construct?

Is Schizophrenia a Diagnostic Construct? A Critique of the Medicalisation of Human Distress

Up until 1980, the DSM was heavily influenced by psychoanalytically informed ideas. The DSM III however introduced more of a scientific, biologically based approach, and was stripped of the non-empirical principles such as the Oedipal complex and the nature of dreams.

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