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Depression across DSM and ICD editions: Psychiatric nosology's ‘Black Dog’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
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Introduction
The diagnosis of depressive disorders has suffered important modifications throughout DSM and ICD editions. The history of those modifications is an important subject to fully understand the current diagnostic criteria and classification, with milestones often set not by scientific or theoretical data but rather by political decision and conflicting interests.
Objective
The authors propose a review of how the concept of major depression has evolved along the several DSM and ICD editions.
Methods
The results were obtained searching literature included on the platforms PubMed, Google Scholar, PsycINFO and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Results
The current diagnostic entity lacks validity and utility and that is an obstacle to both scientific research and clinical practice.
Conclusion
The authors also discuss alternative models which may contribute to a paradigm shift more suitable to clinical reality and to provide a useful framework for all levels of research.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- e-Poster viewing: Classification of mental disorders
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S461
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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