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‘Diagnosis and Family Therapy: Traditional’ Psychiatry and the Concepts of Disease and Diagnosis
Author(s) -
Harari Edwin
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1990.tb00814.x
Subject(s) - categorical variable , relation (database) , disease , project commissioning , psychology , psychiatry , family therapy , psychotherapist , medicine , publishing , computer science , machine learning , pathology , data mining , political science , law
The process of diagnosis in medicine and psychiatry is described. An historical review of the concept of disease provides three models of disease: (1) as a lesion (2) as a host environment relation (3) as a statistical concept, each of which has implications for diagnosis. Three models of psychiatric diagnosis are outlined — (1) the categorical (2) the dimensional, and (3) the multi‐axial. The limitations and deficiencies of each of these models are described, both in general terms and specifically in the light of family‐systems thinking.