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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.…
The concept of mental disorder. On the boundary between biological facts and social values.
- J. Wakefield
- PsychologyAmerican Psychologist
- 1 March 1992
The harmful dysfunction analysis is shown to avoid the problems while preserving the insights of these other approaches and the concept of disorder combines value and scientific components.
Disorder as harmful dysfunction: a conceptual critique of DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder.
- J. Wakefield
- PsychologyPsychology Review
- 1 April 1992
The definition of disorder operationally fails to capture the idea of "dysfunction" and so fails to validly distinguish disorders from nondisorders, leading to invalidities in many of DSM-III-R's specific diagnostic criteria.
Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V.
- R. Spitzer, M. First, J. Wakefield
- PsychologyJournal of Anxiety Disorders
- 2007
Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels.
- D. Buss, M. Haselton, T. Shackelford, A. Bleske, J. Wakefield
- Psychology, BiologyThe American psychologist
- 1 May 1998
The authors outline the conceptual and evidentiary standards that apply to adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels and discuss the relative utility of these concepts for psychological science.
Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder.
- J. Wakefield
- PsychologyJournal of Abnormal Psychology
- 1 August 1999
It is argued that the objections are based on conceptual confusions and can be turned around to provide strong new support for the HD analysis and disconfirms the Roschian account.
Psychotherapy, Distributive Justice, and Social Work: Part 1: Distributive Justice as a Conceptual Framework for Social Work
- J. Wakefield
- PsychologySocial 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…
DSM-5: An Overview of Changes and Controversies
- J. Wakefield
- Psychology
- 22 May 2013
The DSM-5 offers many changes in the criteria and categories used in clinical diagnosis. The provocative and sometimes controversial nature of the changes has enlivened debate in the mental health…
The concept of mental disorder: diagnostic implications of the harmful dysfunction analysis.
- J. Wakefield
- PsychologyWorld Psychiatry
- 1 October 2007
A hybrid account, the harmful dysfunction (HD) analysis, is proposed that incorporates both value and scientific components as essential elements of the medical concept of disorder, applying to both physical and mental conditions.
Diagnosing DSM-IV--Part I: DSM-IV and the concept of disorder.
- J. Wakefield
- PsychologyBehaviour Research and Therapy
- 1 July 1997
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