During the 1950s and 1960s, psychiatric classification systems ...

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During the 1950s and 1960s, psychiatric classification systems were widely criticized. Discuss some of the reasons for this criticism.
 
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Question 2

Explain how the term diagnosis in psychopathology does not have the same meaning that it has in other fields, and explain the significance of this difference.
 
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Answer to Question 1

(1) low reliability and interrater consistency; (2) the ideas that people who are diagnosed as mentally ill actually are having problems in living and are not sick; (3) the problems of self-fulfilling prophecies: those who are diagnosed live up to the expectations of the sick role. Patients may be stigmatized by being labeled.

Answer to Question 2

In many fields, diagnosis refers to causal analysis. It means that one can look underneath to pinpoint the origins of the problem. In this way, the diagnosis leads directly to the problem's solution. In the field of psychopathology, assigning a diagnosis does not mean that we understand the etiology of the person's problem. Assigning a diagnosis of a mental disorder simply identifies the nature of the problem without implying exactly how the problem came into existence. A diagnostic label does not provide an explanation, and thus does not lead directly to a specific solution.