The role and status of mental disorders’ classification schemes in the representation of clinical psychology and psychiatry knowledge
Subject Areas : روانشناسی بالینی و آسیب شناسی روانی
1 - Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, and Institute for Transformation in Huminites, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. Email: mgoodarzi@rose.shirazu
Keywords: classification schemes of mental disorers, DSM-V, ICD-10, science production,
Abstract :
In this article, the relationship between classification and science production in psychiatry and clinical psychology has been explored. Mental disorders’ Classification schemes provide the possibility to represent the phenomena and relationships discovered in the knowledge of psychiatry and clinical psychology in a practical format. In this article, the types of classifications used in the knowledge of psychiatry and clinical psychology and their advantages and disadvantages, and the most common classification used in these fields, which is based on the evolved medical model, were reviewed. It can be concluded from the discussed topics that the common classification in psychiatry and clinical psychology is not based on the genuine nature of the subject matter and the changes made in these two fields, but it has mainly been influenced by the changes that have occurred in science in general and especially biological and medical sciences. Therefore, in order to deal with the real nature of the subjects investigated in the field of clinical psychology in accordance with the developments that have occurred in it in the last few centuries and to meet the needs of therapists and people with mental problems, there is a need to change the intellectual paradigm on which the classification of mental disorders is based.