Document (#31986)

Author

Spasser, M.A.

Title

Psychiatrists make diagnoses, but not in circumstances of their own choosing : agency and structure in the DSM

Source

Library trends. 47(1998) no.2, S.313-337

Year

1998

Abstract

Psychiatric classification is a profoundly important activity that directs subsequent treatment decisions, assumptions about etiology, and prognostic considerations. While the ideal classification scheme would be clear, concise, comprehensively inclusive of, and hospitable to, the entities under consideration, in practice, all classification systems reflect trade-offs and embody flawed structures. Accordingly, it is essential to be fully cognizant of the shortcomings, biases, and tacit assumptions of extant systems so that classifications can be improved and so that misrepresentations will not be blindly repeated or reproduced. Modern psychiatric classification and diagnosis are almost exclusively defined within the context of the nomenclature and diagnostic categories of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This article adapts Giddens's (1984) theory of "structuration" to explain how at least some of the consequences of relying on the DSM for classification result in unexamined conditions of its use and unintentionally reproduced its underlying assumptions. This article uses the DSM to explicate agency in structuration theory and structuration theory to illuminate the structure and use of the DSM. The discussion suggests that Mouzelis's (1995) four-fold duality-dualism typology, by empowering the agent not only virtually but in actuality, is a necessary and salutary modification of structuration theory. Finally, it will be suggested that several prominent issues and concerns in psychiatric nosology resonate profoundly with those that have concerned, and continue to interest, library classificationists.

Footnote

Artikel in einem Themenheft "How Classifications Work: Problems and Challenges in an Electronic Age"

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