References - Public health

American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Washington DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1994.
Ash, P. The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis. Journal of Abnormal Social Psychology v. 44 (1949), pp. 272-276. A study focusing on three psychiatrists and the degree to which they disagreed on diagnosis of the same patients. Study focused on a number of variables including the seriousness of pathology and the interaction between these variables and consistency. Results show a very low percentage of consistent diagnoses for all three doctors.
Barbour and Allen B. Caring for Patients: a Critique of the Medical Model. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1995. This book relegates the medical model of illness to at least a less primary role in the conceptualisation and treatment of problems. The author argues that "when applied without perspective" the medical model and discrete diagnostics are invalid, and that "a better understanding of the relation of the illness to the life of the patient" can obviate many of the problems the model otherwise incurs.
Bean, Philip. Mental Illness: Changes and Trends. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1983. A collection of interdisciplinary articles discussing various and varied issues in mental health, including the difficulty of a "scientific" psychiatry, and the effects of diagnosis on patients, and a fleshing out of the difficulties implied by finding a definition for normality.
Barker, Philip (2004). Basic Child Psychiatry. Blackwell.
Beck, A.T. et al. Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis. American Journal of Psychiatry v. 119 (October), pp. 351-357. A research study assessing the degree of diagnostic agreement among 4 psychiatrists diagnosing patients in an inpatient facility. Results showed a level of concordance of 54%, high enough to be clearly non-random, but low enough to raise questions about the utility of diagnostics as a treatment or research tool.
Boorse, Christopher. "What a Theory of Mental Health Should Be." Journal of the Theory of Social Behavior, 6 (1976): 61-84.
Costello, Anthony J. (1986). Assessment And Diagnosis Of Affective Disorders In Children Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 27 (5), 565–574.
Farber, Seth. Transcending Medicalism. Journal of Mind and Behaviour, v. 8(1) (1987) pp. 105-132. An argument that psychiatric diagnostics are internally flawed and anti-therapeutic. The author argues for a more culturally informed conception of mental problems beginning from an understanding of these entities not as an epidemic but as a sign of human change and evolution.
Freeman, H (1999). A Century of Psychiatry. Mosby.
Hoagwood, K. & Jensen, P S. (1997). Developmental Psychopathology and the Notion of Culture: Introduction to the Special Section on "The Fusion of Cultural Horizons: Cultural Influences on the Assessment of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents". Applied Developmental Science, Vol. 1.
Hooper, S R, et al. (1992). Child Psychopathology: Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Assessment. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jensen, P S et al. (1993). Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Research: Problems and Prospects for the 1990s. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 21.
Jensen, P S (2003). Comorbidity and Child Psychopathology: Recommendations for the Next Decade. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 31.
Jewell, S W. (2002). A Win-Win Relationship: Re-ed and Child Psychiatry. Reclaiming Children and Youth, Vol. 11.
Jones, K. W. (1999). Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority. Harvard University Press.
Kaplan and Saddock. Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry: Sixth Edition. Williams and Wilkins, 1995.
Kobayashi, Futoshi (1999). Cultural Differences and Similarities in Terms of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. This study investigates the controversy over whether or not culture has an effect on child and adolescent psychopathology. It presents the two opposing positions held in the field. The "universalists" argue that child and adolescent psychopathology is significantly similar across cultures. The "culturalists" argue that culture is a strikingly important factor when it comes to psychopathology. The study suggests that more cross-cultural studies of child and adolescent psychopathology are needed to make definite conclusions about the debate among the researchers since both sides are right to some degree.
Laufer, M. (1997). Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond. Karnac Books.
Maddux, J E et al (2005). Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding. Lawrence Erlbaum. The author's position is that psychopathology and mental disorder are not the kinds of terms whose true meanings can be discovered or defined objectively by using the methods of science. They are social constructions—abstract ideas whose meanings are negotiated among the people and institutions of a culture and that reflect the values and power structure of that culture at a given time. Thus, the conception and definition of psychopathology always has been and always will be debated and always has been and always will be changing. It is not a static and concrete thing whose true nature can be discovered and described once and for all.
Mehlman, B. "The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology v. 47 (1952), pp. 577-578. A study showing that individual psychiatrists have individualised patterns of diagnosis which vary from psychiatrist to psychiatrist. This indicates the degree to which subjectivity enters into diagnosis even at the level of implementation, much less formulation.
Parron, D L. (1997). The Fusion of Cultural Horizons: Cultural Influences on the Assessment of Psychopathology on Children. Applied Developmental Science, Vol. 1.
Rutter, Michael and Taylor, Eric. (2005). Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Blackwell Science.
Sadler, John. Z., Osborne P. Wiggins, and Michael. A. Schwartz, (editors). Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Classification. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
Timimi, Sami (2002). Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood. Brunner-Routledge.
Timimi, Sami (2005). Naughty Boys: Anti-social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
Timimi, Sami (2006). Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Free Association Books.
Wakefield, Jerome C. "The Concept of Mental Disorder: On the Boundary Between Biological Facts and Social Values." American Psychologist 47, no. 3. (1992): 373-88.
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