What "insane" meant to her is impossible to reconstruct in modern diagnostic terms.
That was its intention: to capture as much psychological suffering as possible in diagnostic terms.
I'm not entirely convinced that we should dispense with diagnostic terms altogether, but you can't fail to be impressed by the energy and positivity these people have about reclaiming words that would once have been hurled at them as insults.
The diagnostic terms of psychiatry have been introduced at various stages of the discipline's development and from very different theoretical standpoints.
Treating his subject in diagnostic terms, Mercurio - a doctor and author of the hospital drama Bodies, one of the best British TV shows of recent years - suggests that the sexual career, instead of being a sidebar, was the key, and that the fate of the free world was determined by a maverick rather than "the juggernaut of conventional morality" that he publicly espoused.
Since its inception, the board has been so riven with conflicts that it took a half century to update what were supposed to be temporary disability standards, leaving in place until 1998 archaic diagnostic terms like "cretinism," "imbecility" and "middle-class moronism".
Westra S, Adler I, Batton D, Betz B, Bezinque S, Durfee S, Ecklund K, Feinstein K, Fordham L, Junewick J, Lorenzo R, McCauley R, Miller C, Seibert J, Kuban K, Allred E, Leviton A. Reader variability in the use of diagnostic terms to describe white matter lesions seen on cranial scans of severely premature infants: the ELGAN study.
A confusing array of diagnostic terms has arisen.
The implications of descriptive and diagnostic terms as well as the criteria for diagnosis and limitations of small biopsies is explained.
In the 2013, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders, the diagnostic terms "substance abuse" and "substance dependence" were replaced in favor of "SUD".
However, rather than abandoning many long-established diagnostic terms, this classification retains them, providing detailed definitions for differential diagnoses and their types, subtypes and subforms.
