Faster access than browser!
194 relations: A priori and a posteriori, Abnormal psychology, Adjustment disorder, Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist), Age of Enlightenment, Agoraphobia, Alcohol abuse, Allen Frances, Alzheimer's disease, American Psychiatric Association, Amnesia, Anorexia nervosa, Anthropology, Antipsychotic, Antisocial personality disorder, Anxiety disorder, Attachment theory, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Autism, Avicenna, Bipolar disorder, Board of directors, Borderline personality disorder, Botany, Bulimia nervosa, Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal, Carl Linnaeus, Catatonia, Categorization, Charles Darwin, Child abuse, Child and adolescent psychiatry, Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders, Chinese Society of Psychiatry, Clinical formulation, Clinical psychology, Cognitive disorder, Construct validity, Cross-cultural psychiatry, Culture, Culture-bound syndrome, Cyclothymia, Degeneration theory, Degenerative disease, Delirium, Delusional disorder, Dementia, Dementia praecox, Developmental disability, Developmental disorder, ..., Diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, Dichotomy, Dipsomania, Disorganized schizophrenia, Dissociation (psychology), Dissociative identity disorder, Drapetomania, DSM-5, DSM-IV codes, Dyspareunia, Dysthymia, Eating disorder, Electroconvulsive therapy, Emil Kraepelin, Endocrinology, Epilepsy, Etiology, Europe, Evolution, Ewald Hecker, Factitious disorder, Factitious disorder imposed on self, Fad, Feighner Criteria, François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, France, Gender dysphoria, Generalized anxiety disorder, Hippocrates, Homosexuality, Humorism, Hypersexuality, Hysteria, ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders, Idiot, Impulse control disorder, Insomnia, Intellectual disability, Inter-rater reliability, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Involutional melancholia, James Cowles Prichard, Japan, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Jean-Pierre Falret, Johann Christian Reil, John Stuart Mill, John Wiley & Sons, Jules Baillarger, Karl Jaspers, Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum, Kleptomania, Kraepelin, Labeling theory, Learning disability, List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry, Lithium, Major depressive disorder, Mania, Masked depression, Medical classification, Medical model, Medical prescription, Melancholia, Mental disorder, Mental health, Mental health professional, Monomania, Mood disorder, Moral insanity, Narcissistic personality disorder, Neurasthenia, Neurological disorder, Neurosis, Normality (behavior), Nosology, Objectivity (science), Obsessive–compulsive disorder, Operational definition, Operationalization, Panic disorder, Paranoia, Paul Briquet, Paula Caplan, Personality disorder, Phenomenology (psychology), Philippe Pinel, Phobia, Phrenology, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Primary care, Prototype, Psychiatric survivors movement, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Psychodynamics, Psychologist, Psychology in medieval Islam, Psychopathology, Psychosis, Pyromania, Relational disorder, Reliability (statistics), Renaissance, Research Diagnostic Criteria, Research Domain Criteria, Schizophrenia, Science, Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Sexual dysfunction, Sigmund Freud, Sleep disorder, Sleepwalking, Social anxiety disorder, Somatic symptom disorder, Somatization disorder, Spectrum disorder, Stephen Jay Gould, Stress (biology), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, Substance abuse, Syndrome, Tardive dyskinesia, Taxonomy (biology), Thomas Clouston, Thomas Sydenham, Transvestism, Tricyclic antidepressant, Unitary psychosis, United States, United States congressional hearing, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Utility, Validity, Validity (statistics), Wilhelm Griesinger, William C. Menninger, William Cullen, World Health Organization, World Psychiatric Association, World Psychiatry. Expand index (144 more) »
A priori and a posteriori
The Latin phrases a priori ("from the earlier") and a posteriori ("from the latter") are philosophical terms of art popularized by Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and A priori and a posteriori · See more »
Abnormal psychology
Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Abnormal psychology · See more »
Adjustment disorder
An adjustment disorder (AD)—sometimes called exogenous, reactive, or situational depression—occurs when an individual is unable to adjust to or cope with a particular stress or a major life event.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Adjustment disorder · See more »
Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist)
Adolf Meyer (September 13, 1866 – March 17, 1950) was a psychiatrist who rose to prominence as the first psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1910-1941).
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist) · See more »
Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Age of Enlightenment · See more »
Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives the environment to be unsafe with no easy way to get away.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Agoraphobia · See more »
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol abuse is a previous psychiatric diagnosis in which there is recurring harmful use of alcohol despite its negative consequences.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Alcohol abuse · See more »
Allen Frances
Allen J. Frances (born 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Allen Frances · See more »
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Alzheimer's disease · See more »
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and American Psychiatric Association · See more »
Amnesia
Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Amnesia · See more »
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, fear of gaining weight, and a strong desire to be thin, resulting in food restriction.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Anorexia nervosa · See more »
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Anthropology · See more »
Antipsychotic
Antipsychotics, also known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers, are a class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thought), principally in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Antipsychotic · See more »
Antisocial personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD) is a personality disorder characterized by a long term pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Antisocial personality disorder · See more »
Anxiety disorder
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Anxiety disorder · See more »
Attachment theory
Attachment theory is a psychological model that attempts to describe the dynamics of long-term and short-term interpersonal relationships between humans.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Attachment theory · See more »
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder of the neurodevelopmental type.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder · See more »
Autism
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by troubles with social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Autism · See more »
Avicenna
Avicenna (also Ibn Sīnā or Abu Ali Sina; ابن سینا; – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Avicenna · See more »
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Bipolar disorder · See more »
Board of directors
A board of directors is a recognized group of people who jointly oversee the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Board of directors · See more »
Borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Borderline personality disorder · See more »
Botany
Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Botany · See more »
Bulimia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa, also known as simply bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Bulimia nervosa · See more »
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal
Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (23 March 1833, in Berlin – 27 January 1890, in Kreuzlingen) was a German psychiatrist from Berlin.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal · See more »
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Carl Linnaeus · See more »
Catatonia
Catatonia is a state of psycho-motor immobility and behavioral abnormality manifested by stupor.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Catatonia · See more »
Categorization
Categorization is the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Categorization · See more »
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Charles Darwin · See more »
Child abuse
Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or other caregiver.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Child abuse · See more »
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Child and adolescent psychiatry or pediatric psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Child and adolescent psychiatry · See more »
Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders
The Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders (CCMD), published by the Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP), is a clinical guide used in China for the diagnosis of mental disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders · See more »
Chinese Society of Psychiatry
The Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP) is the largest organization for psychiatrists in China.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Chinese Society of Psychiatry · See more »
Clinical formulation
A clinical formulation, also known as case formulation and problem formulation, is a theoretically-based explanation or conceptualisation of the information obtained from a clinical assessment.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Clinical formulation · See more »
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Clinical psychology · See more »
Cognitive disorder
Cognitive disorders (CDs), also known as neurocognitive disorders (NCDs), are a category of mental health disorders that primarily affect cognitive abilities including learning, memory, perception, and problem solving.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Cognitive disorder · See more »
Construct validity
Construct validity is "the degree to which a test measures what it claims, or purports, to be measuring."Polit DF Beck CT (2012).
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Construct validity · See more »
Cross-cultural psychiatry
Cross-cultural psychiatry (also known as transcultural psychiatry or cultural psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural context of mental disorders and the challenges of addressing ethnic diversity in psychiatric services.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Cross-cultural psychiatry · See more »
Culture
Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Culture · See more »
Culture-bound syndrome
In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Culture-bound syndrome · See more »
Cyclothymia
Cyclothymia, also known as cyclothymic disorder, is a mental disorder that involves periods of symptoms of depression and periods of symptoms of hypomania.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Cyclothymia · See more »
Degeneration theory
Social degeneration was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 19th century.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Degeneration theory · See more »
Degenerative disease
Degenerative disease is the result of a continuous process based on degenerative cell changes, affecting tissues or organs, which will increasingly deteriorate over time, whether due to normal bodily wear or lifestyle choices such as exercise or eating habits.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Degenerative disease · See more »
Delirium
Delirium, also known as acute confusional state, is an organically caused decline from a previously baseline level of mental function.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Delirium · See more »
Delusional disorder
Delusional disorder is a generally rare mental illness in which the patient presents delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Delusional disorder · See more »
Dementia
Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dementia · See more »
Dementia praecox
Dementia praecox (a "premature dementia" or "precocious madness") is a disused psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dementia praecox · See more »
Developmental disability
Developmental disability is a diverse group of chronic conditions that are due to mental or physical impairments that arise before adulthood.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Developmental disability · See more »
Developmental disorder
Developmental disorders comprise a group of psychiatric conditions originating in childhood that involve serious impairment in different areas.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Developmental disorder · See more »
Diagnosis
Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Diagnosis · See more »
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders · See more »
Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood
The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood-Revised (DC: 0-3R) is a developmentally based diagnostic manual that provides clinical criteria for categorizing mental health and developmental disorders in infants and toddlers.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood · See more »
Dichotomy
A dichotomy is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets).
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dichotomy · See more »
Dipsomania
Dipsomania is a historical term describing a medical condition involving an uncontrollable craving for alcohol.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dipsomania · See more »
Disorganized schizophrenia
Disorganized schizophrenia, also known as hebephrenia or hebephrenic schizophrenia, is a subtype of schizophrenia, although it is not recognized in the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Disorganized schizophrenia · See more »
Dissociation (psychology)
In psychology, dissociation is any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experiences.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dissociation (psychology) · See more »
Dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dissociative identity disorder · See more »
Drapetomania
Drapetomania was a conjectural mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Drapetomania · See more »
DSM-5
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) is the 2013 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and DSM-5 · See more »
DSM-IV codes
DSM-IV codes are the classification found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision, also known as DSM-IV-TR, a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) that includes all currently recognized mental health disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and DSM-IV codes · See more »
Dyspareunia
Dyspareunia is painful sexual intercourse due to medical or psychological causes.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dyspareunia · See more »
Dysthymia
Dysthymia, now known as persistent depressive disorder (PDD), is a mood disorder consisting of the same cognitive and physical problems as depression, with less severe but longer-lasting symptoms.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Dysthymia · See more »
Eating disorder
An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating habits that negatively affect a person's physical or mental health.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Eating disorder · See more »
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, and often referred to as shock treatment, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in patients to provide relief from mental disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Electroconvulsive therapy · See more »
Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin (15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Emil Kraepelin · See more »
Endocrinology
Endocrinology (from endocrine + -ology) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Endocrinology · See more »
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Epilepsy · See more »
Etiology
Etiology (alternatively aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation, or origination.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Etiology · See more »
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Europe · See more »
Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Evolution · See more »
Ewald Hecker
Ewald Hecker (20 October 1843, Halle – 1909) was a German psychiatrist who was an important figure in the early days of modern psychiatry.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Ewald Hecker · See more »
Factitious disorder
A factitious disorder is a condition in which a person, without a malingering motive, acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms, purely to attain (for themselves or for another) a patient's role.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Factitious disorder · See more »
Factitious disorder imposed on self
Factitious disorder imposed on self, also known as Munchausen syndrome, is a factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Factitious disorder imposed on self · See more »
Fad
A fad, trend or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follows an impulse for a finite period.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Fad · See more »
Feighner Criteria
The Feighner Criteria is the informal name given to influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Feighner Criteria · See more »
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix (May 12, 1706 – February 19, 1767) was a French physician and botanist who was a native of Alès.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix · See more »
France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and France · See more »
Gender dysphoria
Gender dysphoria (GD), or gender identity disorder (GID), is the distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Gender dysphoria · See more »
Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry, that is, apprehensive expectation about events or activities.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Generalized anxiety disorder · See more »
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Kos (Hippokrátēs ho Kṓos), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Hippocrates · See more »
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Homosexuality · See more »
Humorism
Humorism, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing the makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers, positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person—known as humors or humours—directly influences their temperament and health.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Humorism · See more »
Hypersexuality
Hypersexuality is a clinical diagnosis used by mental healthcare professionals to describe extremely frequent or suddenly increased libido.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Hypersexuality · See more »
Hysteria
Hysteria, in the colloquial use of the term, means ungovernable emotional excess.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Hysteria · See more »
ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders
ICD-10 is an international statistical classification produced by the World Health Organization.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders · See more »
Idiot
Idiot was formerly a legal and psychiatric category of profound intellectual disability, where a person's mental age is two years or less, and he or she cannot guard himself or herself against common physical dangers.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Idiot · See more »
Impulse control disorder
Impulse-control disorder (ICD) is a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by impulsivity – failure to resist a temptation, an urge, an impulse, or the inability to not speak on a thought.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Impulse control disorder · See more »
Insomnia
Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Insomnia · See more »
Intellectual disability
Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability, and mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Intellectual disability · See more »
Inter-rater reliability
In statistics, inter-rater reliability, inter-rater agreement, or concordance, is the degree of agreement among raters.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Inter-rater reliability · See more »
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the international "standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes." Its full official name is International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. The ICD is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations System.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems · See more »
Involutional melancholia
Involutional melancholia or involutional depression is a traditional name for a psychiatric disorder affecting mainly elderly or late middle-aged people, usually accompanied with paranoia.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Involutional melancholia · See more »
James Cowles Prichard
James Cowles Prichard, MD FRS (11 February 1786 – 23 December 1848) was a British physician and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and James Cowles Prichard · See more »
Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Japan · See more »
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (3 February 1772 – 12 December 1840) was a French psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol · See more »
Jean-Pierre Falret
Jean-Pierre Falret (26 April 1794 – 28 October 1870) was a French psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Jean-Pierre Falret · See more »
Johann Christian Reil
Johann Christian Reil (20 February 1759, Rhaude (an urban district of Rhauderfehn) – 22 November 1813, Halle an der Saale) was a German physician, physiologist, anatomist, and psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Johann Christian Reil · See more »
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill, also known as J.S. Mill, (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and John Stuart Mill · See more »
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and John Wiley & Sons · See more »
Jules Baillarger
Jules Baillarger, full name Jules Gabriel François Baillarger (25 March 1809 – 31 December 1890), was a French neurologist and psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Jules Baillarger · See more »
Karl Jaspers
Karl Theodor Jaspers (23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Karl Jaspers · See more »
Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum
Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (28 December 1828 – 15 April 1899) was a German psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum · See more »
Kleptomania
Kleptomania or klopemania is the inability to refrain from the urge for stealing items and is usually done for reasons other than personal use or financial gain.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Kleptomania · See more »
Kraepelin
Kraepelin may refer to.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Kraepelin · See more »
Labeling theory
Labeling theory is the theory of how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Labeling theory · See more »
Learning disability
Learning disability is a classification that includes several areas of functioning in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Learning disability · See more »
List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry
The following diagnostic systems and rating scales are used in psychiatry and clinical psychology.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry · See more »
Lithium
Lithium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol Li and atomic number 3.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Lithium · See more »
Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Major depressive disorder · See more »
Mania
Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with lability of affect." Although mania is often conceived as a "mirror image" to depression, the heightened mood can be either euphoric or irritable; indeed, as the mania intensifies, irritability can be more pronounced and result in violence, or anxiety.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Mania · See more »
Masked depression
Masked depression (MD) was a proposed form of atypical depression in which somatic symptoms or behavioural disturbances dominate the clinical picture and disguise the underlying affective disorder.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Masked depression · See more »
Medical classification
Medical classification, or medical coding, is the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Medical classification · See more »
Medical model
Medical model is the term coined by psychiatrist R. D. Laing in his The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (1971), for the "set of procedures in which all doctors are trained".
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Medical model · See more »
Medical prescription
A prescription is a health-care program implemented by a physician or other qualified health care practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Medical prescription · See more »
Melancholia
Melancholia (from µέλαινα χολή),Burton, Bk.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Melancholia · See more »
Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Mental disorder · See more »
Mental health
Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Mental health · See more »
Mental health professional
A mental health professional is a health care practitioner or community services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Mental health professional · See more »
Monomania
In 19th-century psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, one, and mania, meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of partial insanity conceived as single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Monomania · See more »
Mood disorder
Mood disorder, also known as mood (affective) disorders, is a group of conditions where a disturbance in the person's mood is the main underlying feature.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Mood disorder · See more »
Moral insanity
Moral insanity referred to a type of mental disorder consisting of abnormal emotions and behaviours in the apparent absence of intellectual impairments, delusions, or hallucinations.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Moral insanity · See more »
Narcissistic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder with a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Narcissistic personality disorder · See more »
Neurasthenia
Neurasthenia is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 to label a mechanical weakness of the nerves and would become a major diagnosis in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries after neurologist George Miller Beard reintroduced the concept in 1869.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Neurasthenia · See more »
Neurological disorder
A neurological disorder is any disorder of the nervous system.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Neurological disorder · See more »
Neurosis
Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving chronic distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Neurosis · See more »
Normality (behavior)
Normality is a behavior that can be normal for an individual (intrapersonal normality) when it is consistent with the most common behaviour for that person.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Normality (behavior) · See more »
Nosology
Nosology is a classification scheme used in medicine to classify diseases.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Nosology · See more »
Objectivity (science)
Objectivity in science is a value that informs how science is practiced and how scientific truths are discovered.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Objectivity (science) · See more »
Obsessive–compulsive disorder
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly (called "rituals"), or have certain thoughts repeatedly (called "obsessions").
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Obsessive–compulsive disorder · See more »
Operational definition
An operational definition is the articulation of operationalization (or statement of procedures) used in defining the terms of a process (or set of validation tests) needed to determine the nature of an item or phenomenon (a variable, term, or object) and its properties such as duration, quantity, extension in space, chemical composition, etc.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Operational definition · See more »
Operationalization
In research design, especially in psychology, social sciences, life sciences, and physics, operationalization is a process of defining the measurement of a phenomenon that is not directly measurable, though its existence is indicated by other phenomena.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Operationalization · See more »
Panic disorder
Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by reoccurring unexpected panic attacks.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Panic disorder · See more »
Paranoia
Paranoia is an instinct or thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Paranoia · See more »
Paul Briquet
Paul Briquet or Pierre Briquet (12 January 1796 to 25 January 1881) was a French physician and psychologist that advanced the reasoned treatment of disturbed people said to be hysterics.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Paul Briquet · See more »
Paula Caplan
Paula Joan Caplan (born July 7, 1947 in Springfield, Missouri) is a clinical and research psychologist, activist, social justice and human rights advocate, nonfiction writer, award-winning playwright, screenwriter, actor, and director.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Paula Caplan · See more »
Personality disorder
Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Personality disorder · See more »
Phenomenology (psychology)
Phenomenology within psychology (phenomenological psychology) is the psychological study of subjective experience.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Phenomenology (psychology) · See more »
Philippe Pinel
Philippe Pinel (20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826) was a French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Philippe Pinel · See more »
Phobia
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Phobia · See more »
Phrenology
Phrenology is a pseudomedicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Phrenology · See more »
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)Acceptable variants of this term exist; see the Terminology section in this article.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Posttraumatic stress disorder · See more »
Primary care
Primary care is the day-to-day healthcare given by a health care provider.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Primary care · See more »
Prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Prototype · See more »
Psychiatric survivors movement
The psychiatric survivors movement (more broadly peer/consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement) is a diverse association of individuals who either currently access mental health services (known as consumers or service users), or who are survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who are ex-patients of mental health services.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychiatric survivors movement · See more »
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of mental disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychiatry · See more »
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychoanalysis · See more »
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) is a diagnostic handbook similar to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual · See more »
Psychodynamics
Psychodynamics, also known as psychodynamic psychology, in its broadest sense, is an approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychodynamics · See more »
Psychologist
A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychologist · See more »
Psychology in medieval Islam
Islamic psychology or ʿilm al-nafs (Arabic: علم النفس), the science of the nafs ("self" or "psyche"), is the medical and philosophical study of the psyche from an Islamic perspective and addresses topics in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and psychiatry as well as psychosomatic medicine.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychology in medieval Islam · See more »
Psychopathology
Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, including efforts to understand their genetic, biological, psychological, and social causes; effective classification schemes (nosology); course across all stages of development; manifestations; and treatment.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychopathology · See more »
Psychosis
Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties telling what is real and what is not.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Psychosis · See more »
Pyromania
Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires, in order to relieve tension or for instant gratification.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Pyromania · See more »
Relational disorder
According to Michael First of the DSM-5 working committee the focus of a relational disorder, in contrast to other DSM-IV disorders, "is on the relationship rather than on any one individual in the relationship".
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Relational disorder · See more »
Reliability (statistics)
Reliability in statistics and psychometrics is the overall consistency of a measure.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Reliability (statistics) · See more »
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Renaissance · See more »
Research Diagnostic Criteria
The Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) are a collection of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria published in late 1970s.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Research Diagnostic Criteria · See more »
Research Domain Criteria
The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project is an initiative being developed by US National Institute of Mental Health.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Research Domain Criteria · See more »
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Schizophrenia · See more »
Science
R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Science · See more »
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of drugs that are typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor · See more »
Sexual dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction (or sexual malfunction or sexual disorder) is difficulty experienced by an individual or a couple during any stage of a normal sexual activity, including physical pleasure, desire, preference, arousal or orgasm.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Sexual dysfunction · See more »
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Sigmund Freud · See more »
Sleep disorder
A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Sleep disorder · See more »
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a phenomenon of combined sleep and wakefulness.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Sleepwalking · See more »
Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by a significant amount of fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Social anxiety disorder · See more »
Somatic symptom disorder
A somatic symptom disorder, formerly known as a somatoform disorder,(2013) " " dsm5.org.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Somatic symptom disorder · See more »
Somatization disorder
Somatization disorder (also Briquet's syndrome) is a mental disorder characterized by recurring, multiple, and current, clinically significant complaints about somatic symptoms, although it is no longer considered a clinical diagnosis.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Somatization disorder · See more »
Spectrum disorder
A spectrum disorder is a mental disorder that includes a range of linked conditions, sometimes also extending to include singular symptoms and traits.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Spectrum disorder · See more »
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Stephen Jay Gould · See more »
Stress (biology)
Physiological or biological stress is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Stress (biology) · See more »
Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV
The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) is a diagnostic exam used to determine DSM-IV Axis I disorders (major mental disorders).
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV · See more »
Substance abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Substance abuse · See more »
Syndrome
A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms that are correlated with each other and, often, with a particular disease or disorder.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Syndrome · See more »
Tardive dyskinesia
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a disorder that results in involuntary, repetitive body movements.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Tardive dyskinesia · See more »
Taxonomy (biology)
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Taxonomy (biology) · See more »
Thomas Clouston
Sir Thomas Smith Clouston (22 April 1840 – 19 April 1915) was a Scottish psychiatrist.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Thomas Clouston · See more »
Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) was an English physician.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Thomas Sydenham · See more »
Transvestism
Transvestism is the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Transvestism · See more »
Tricyclic antidepressant
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are a class of medications that are used primarily as antidepressants.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Tricyclic antidepressant · See more »
Unitary psychosis
Unitary psychosis (Einheitspsychose) refers to the 19th-century belief prevalent in German psychiatry until the era of Emil Kraepelin that all forms of psychosis were surface variations of a single underlying disease process.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Unitary psychosis · See more »
United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and United States · See more »
United States congressional hearing
A United States congressional hearing is the principal formal method by which United States congressional committees collect and analyze information in the early stages of legislative policymaking.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and United States congressional hearing · See more »
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides near-comprehensive healthcare services to eligible military veterans at VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country; several non-healthcare benefits including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, education assistance, home loans, and life insurance; and provides burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members at 135 national cemeteries.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and United States Department of Veterans Affairs · See more »
Utility
Within economics the concept of utility is used to model worth or value, but its usage has evolved significantly over time.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Utility · See more »
Validity
In logic, an argument is valid if and only if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Validity · See more »
Validity (statistics)
Validity is the extent to which a concept, conclusion or measurement is well-founded and likely corresponds accurately to the real world based on probability.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Validity (statistics) · See more »
Wilhelm Griesinger
Wilhelm Griesinger (29 July 1817 – 26 October 1868) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Stuttgart.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and Wilhelm Griesinger · See more »
William C. Menninger
William Claire Menninger (October 15, 1899 – September 6, 1966) was a co-founder with his brother Karl and his father of The Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, which is an internationally known center for treatment of behavioral disorders.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and William C. Menninger · See more »
William Cullen
William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading centre of medical education in the English-speaking world.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and William Cullen · See more »
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and World Health Organization · See more »
World Psychiatric Association
The World Psychiatric Association is an international umbrella organisation of psychiatric societies.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and World Psychiatric Association · See more »
World Psychiatry
World Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in the area of psychiatry.
New!!: Classification of mental disorders and World Psychiatry · See more »
Redirects here:
CFTMEA, Classification of mental disorder, Classification of mental illness, Psychiatric classification, Psychiatric diagnosis, Psychiatric nosology.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_mental_disorders
