Diagnostic Conflict and Contradiction in Psychiatry
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Health and Social Behavior
- Vol. 28 (1) , 37-50
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2137139
Abstract
This paper examines the process of psychiatric diagnosis in a community mental health center walk-in clinic. The results indicate a great deal of conflict and contradiction in the psychiatric evaluation. This is discussed in light of several tensions: (1) mixed agendas surrounding diagnosis; (2) conflict between training and professional practice; (3) conflict created when a public facility is staffed by an elite medical school; (4) conflict between providing mental health services while serving the needs of other public agencies and mandates; and (5) conflict between an ascendant biopsychiatric model and the daily work of clinical therapeutic service.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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