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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
- A. V. Horwitz, J. Wakefield
- Psychology
- 18 June 2007
1. The concept of depression 2. The anatomy of normal sadness 3. Sadness with and without cause: depression from ancient times through the nineteenth century 4. Depression in the twentieth century 5.… Expand
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The concept of mental disorder. On the boundary between biological facts and social values.
- J. Wakefield
- Psychology, Medicine
- The American psychologist
- 1 March 1992
Although the concept of mental disorder is fundamental to theory and practice in the mental health field, no agreed on and adequate analysis of this concept currently exists. I argue that a disorder… Expand
Disorder as harmful dysfunction: a conceptual critique of DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder.
- J. Wakefield
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological review
- 1 April 1992
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed., rev.; DSM-III-R) operationally defines disorder essentially as "statistically unexpectable distress or disability." This definition… Expand
Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V.
- R. Spitzer, M. First, J. Wakefield
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of anxiety disorders
- 2007
Papers in this special issue of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders concern critical issues and core assumptions that underlie the diagnostic construct of posttraumatic stress disorder. Rather than… Expand
Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels.
- D. Buss, M. Haselton, T. Shackelford, A. Bleske, J. Wakefield
- Psychology, Medicine
- The American psychologist
- 1 May 1998
Adaptation and natural selection are central concepts in the emerging science of evolutionary psychology. Natural selection is the only known causal process capable of producing complex functional… Expand
Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder.
- J. Wakefield
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of abnormal psychology
- 1 August 1999
The harmful dysfunction (HD) analysis of the concept of disorder (J. C. Wakefield, 1992a) holds that disorders are harmful failures of internal mechanisms to perform their naturally selected… Expand
Psychotherapy, Distributive Justice, and Social Work: Part 1: Distributive Justice as a Conceptual Framework for Social Work
- J. Wakefield
- Sociology
- Social Service Review
- 1 June 1988
This is the first part of a two-part article analyzing the relation between psychotherapy and social work. This part provides a new account of the nature of social work. It is first argued that each… Expand
Diagnosing DSM-IV--Part I: DSM-IV and the concept of disorder.
- J. Wakefield
- Psychology, Medicine
- Behaviour research and therapy
- 1 July 1997
In this first article in a two-article series, I diagnose' a problem with DSM-IV, specifically, the overinclusiveness of its diagnostic criteria. Using the harmful dysfunction analysis of the concept… Expand
Does Social Work Need the Eco-Systems Perspective? Part 2. Does the Perspective Save Social Work from Incoherence?
- J. Wakefield
- Sociology
- Social Service Review
- 1 June 1996
This is the second part of a two-part article in which I analyze the arguments for the eco-systems perspective. In Part 1, published in the March 1996 issue of this journal, I examined four arguments… Expand
Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey.
- J. Wakefield, M. F. Schmitz, M. First, A. Horwitz
- Psychology, Medicine
- Archives of general psychiatry
- 1 April 2007
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Symptoms of intense bereavement-related sadness may resemble those of major depressive disorder (MDD) but may not indicate a mental disorder. To avert false-positive diagnoses, DSM criteria… Expand