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So many researchers are sincerely scientific about factitious fictions: Some comments on the DSM classification of personality disorders
Author(s) -
Mahrer Alvin R.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(200012)56:12<1623::aid-13>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - nothing , psychology , categorization , personality disorders , personality , psychoanalysis , factitious disorder , dsm 5 , malingering , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , psychiatry , epistemology , philosophy
Two comments/questions are flagged and discussed in response to an article by E. David Klonsky on the DSM classification of personality disorders: (a) What is a good way to arrive at the categories of the thing you want to categorize? (b) Categorizing some thing has nothing to do with whether the thing is real, but it is an exceedingly clever ploy. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 56: 1623–1627, 2000.