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Psychiatric diagnosis is one of the most important topics within the broad field of psychiatry. Clear, accurate definitions of the various disorders are essential for clinicians around the world to be confident that they are classifying patients in the same way, thereby enabling comparisons of treatment regimens and their outcomes. There are two major classification systems in use, one produced by the World Health Organization, the WHO International Classification of Diseases, Mental Disorders Chapter, and one by the American Psychiatric Associ... MORE

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List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Concepts of Mental Illness and Health Across The World	p. 1
Historical Roots of the Concept of Mental Illness	p. 3
Philosophical Perspectives on Health, Illness and Clinical Judgement in Psychiatry and Medicine	p. 15
Culture and Mental Illness: Social Context and Explanatory Models	p. 29
Quality of Life in Illness and Health	p. 41
Recovery and Resilience	p. 49
Positive Health and Health Promotion: The WPA Institutional Programme of Psychiatry for the Person in a European Public Health Perspective	p. 61
Psychopathology	p. 69
Dementia	p. 71
Schizophrenia and Related Disorders	p. 85
Mood Disorders	p. 95
Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders	p. 103
Substance-Use Disorders	p. 119
Advances in Diagnosis and Classification of Sexual Disorders	p. 129
Personality Disorders	p. 135
Intellectual Disabilities	p. 141
Specificities of Diagnosis and Classification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	p. 147
Classification in Infant and Child Psychiatry	p. 155
Peri-Natal Mental Disorders	p. 171
Suicide	p. 179
Comorbidity in Mental and General Health	p. 187
Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in Comorbidity	p. 189
Mental and General Health Comorbidities in Persons Presenting in Primary Care	p. 197
Comorbidity, Positive Health, and Integration of Services	p. 213
Diagnostic Models	p. 219
The Validity of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Etiopathogenic and Clinical Approaches	p. 221
The Overall Development of ICD-11	p. 233
The Revision of ICD Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders	p. 247
Experience with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Preparations for the Future	p. 255
Experience and Implications of the Latin American Guide for Psychiatric Diagnosis	p. 263
Chinese Classification and its Future Perspectives	p. 273
Multiaxial Schemas for Psychiatric Diagnosis	p. 279
The Science of Well-Being and Comprehensive Diagnosis	p. 289
Towards a Person-centred Integrative Diagnosis	p. 297
Index	p. 303
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Ihsan M. Salloum, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Alcohol and

Substance Abuse:Treatment and Research, University of Miami Miller School of

Medicine, FL, USA; Section on Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and

Nomenclature, World Psychiatric Association

Juan E. Mezzich, Past President, World Psychiatric Association

Professor of Psychiatry and Director,Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology,

International Center for Mental Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,

New York University, NY, USA

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