On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

by Paul Verhaeghe

Overview

Features a critical evaluation of the contemporary DSM-diagnostic that shows that the lack of reference to an updated governing metapsychology impinges on the therapeutic value of the DSM categories. This book sketches out the foundations of such a metapsychology by combining a Freudo-Lacanian approach with contemporary empirical research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429916762
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/16/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Paul Verhaeghe

Table of Contents

I: DIAGNOSTICS AND DISCOURSE 1. Introduction: Clinical Psychodiagnostics versus Diagnostics 2. Categorical Diagnostics versus Clinical Praxis: A Matter of Impossibility 3. The Impotence of Epistemology4. Know-how in Clinical Practice: Doxa as the Result of Impotence and Impossibility 5. Conclusion: The Need for a Metapsychology