List of works - Jerome Wakefield

Against utility

scientific article published on February 2016

Are there relational disorders? A harmful dysfunction perspective: comment on the special section.

scientific article published in September 2006

Are you as smart as a 4th grader? Why the prototype-similarity approach to diagnosis is a step backward for a scientific psychiatry.

scientific article published on February 2012

Attachment and sibling rivalry in Little Hans: the fantasy of the two giraffes revisited.

scientific article published in January 2007

Can the DSM's major depression bereavement exclusion be validly extended to other stressors? Evidence from the NCS.

scientific article published on 20 January 2013

Clarifying the boundary between normality and disorder: a fundamental conceptual challenge for psychiatry.

scientific article published in November 2013

DSM-5 proposed diagnostic criteria for sexual paraphilias: tensions between diagnostic validity and forensic utility.

scientific article

DSM-5 substance use disorder: how conceptual missteps weakened the foundations of the addictive disorders field.

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

DSM-5, psychiatric epidemiology and the false positives problem.

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

DSM-5: proposed changes to depressive disorders.

scientific article

Defining 'mental disorder' in DSM-V. A commentary on: 'What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V' by Stein et al. (2010).

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Diagnosing DSM-IV--Part I: DSM-IV and the concept of disorder.

scientific article published in July 1997

Diagnosing DSM-IV--Part II: Eysenck (1986) and the essentialist fallacy.

scientific article published in July 1997

Diagnostic Issues and Controversies in DSM-5: Return of the False Positives Problem.

scientific article

Diagnostic criteria as dysfunction indicators: bridging the chasm between the definition of mental disorder and diagnostic criteria for specific disorders.

scientific article published on December 2013

Diagnostic validity and the definition of mental disorder: a program for conceptually advancing psychiatry.

scientific article published in December 2013

Differential diagnosis of depressive illness versus intense normal sadness: how significant is the 'clinical significance criterion' for major depression?

scientific article published in July 2010

Disorder as harmful dysfunction: a conceptual critique of DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder

scientific article published on April 1, 1992

Does the harm component of the harmful dysfunction analysis need rethinking?: Reply to Powell and Scarffe

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Dysfunction as a factual component of disorder.

scientific article published in August 2003

Evolutionary history versus current causal role in the definition of disorder: reply to McNally.

scientific article published in March 2001

Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder.

scientific article published on August 1999

Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey.

scientific article

Fallacious reasoning in the argument to eliminate the major depression bereavement exclusion in DSM-5 ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

False positives in psychiatric diagnosis: implications for human freedom.

scientific article published in February 2010

Feelings of worthlessness during a single complicated major depressive episode predict postremission suicide attempt

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Female primary orgasmic dysfunction: Masters and Johnson versus DSM-III-R on diagnosis and incidence

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

How Many People have Alcohol Use Disorders? Using the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis to Reconcile Prevalence Estimates in Two Community Surveys.

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Limits of operationalization: a critique of Spitzer and Endicott's (1978) proposed operational criteria for mental disorder.

scientific article published in February 1993

Little Hans and attachment theory: Bowlby's hypothesis reconsidered in light of new evidence from the Freud Archives.

scientific article

Little Hans and the thought police: the 'policeman fantasies' as the first reported supervisory transference fantasies.

scientific article published in February 2008

Lowered estimates--but of what?

scientific article

Mapping melancholia: the continuing typological challenge for major depression.

scientific article published on 5 March 2011

Misdiagnosing normality: Psychiatry's failure to address the problem of false positive diagnoses of mental disorder in a changing professional environment.

scientific article published in August 2010

Placing symptoms in context: the role of contextual criteria in reducing false positives in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnoses.

scientific article

Predictive validation of single-episode uncomplicated depression as a benign subtype of unipolar major depression.

scientific article published on 17 August 2013

Recurrence of depression after bereavement-related depression: evidence for the validity of DSM-IV bereavement exclusion from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study.

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Relation between duration and severity in bereavement‐related depression ⬇️

scientific article published on September 23, 2011

Reply

scientific article published on 05 November 2015

Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V.

scientific article

Screening for depression in general medical practice: how can natural sadness be distinguished from major depressive disorder?

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Severity of complicated versus uncomplicated subthreshold depression: New evidence on the "Monotonicity Thesis" from the national comorbidity survey.

scientific article

Sexual dysfunction or pain disorder?: dyspareunia from the perspective of the harmful dysfunction analysis

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Should prolonged grief be reclassified as a mental disorder in DSM-5?: reconsidering the empirical and conceptual arguments for complicated grief disorder.

scientific article published in June 2012

Should screening for depression among children and adolescents be demedicalized?

scientific article published in July 2009

Should uncomplicated bereavement-related depression be reclassified as a disorder in the DSM-5? Response to Kenneth S. Kendler's statement defending the proposal to eliminate the bereavement exclusion.

scientific article published in March 2011

Symptom data reanalysis disconfirms Parker et al.'s claim that latent class analysis identifies melancholic depression.

scientific article

Symptom quality versus quantity in judging prognosis: Using NESARC predictive validators to locate uncomplicated major depression on the number-of-symptoms severity continuum.

scientific article

The biostatistical theory versus the harmful dysfunction analysis, part 1: is part-dysfunction a sufficient condition for medical disorder?

scientific article

The concept of disorder as a foundation for the DSM's theory-neutral nosology: response to Follette and Houts, Part 2.

scientific article published in October 1999

The concept of mental disorder. On the boundary between biological facts and social values

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

The concept of mental disorder: diagnostic implications of the harmful dysfunction analysis.

scientific article

The editor's dilemma: how DSM politics are turning psychiatry into a pseudoscience.

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

The effect of group treatment of primary orgasmic dysfunction on the marital relationship

scientific article published on 01 January 1982

The expansion of post-traumatic stress disorder: some issues regarding diagnosis and treatment.

scientific article published on January 2011

The harmful dysfunction model of alcohol use disorder: revised criteria to improve the validity of diagnosis and prevalence estimates

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

The importance and limits of harm in identifying mental disorder.

scientific article

The myth of DSM's invention of new categories of disorder: Houts's diagnostic discontinuity thesis disconfirmed.

scientific article

The perils of dimensionalization: challenges in distinguishing negative traits from personality disorders.

scientific article published in September 2008

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis

scientific article (publication date: 5 July 2012)

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis.

scientific article

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion.

scientific article published on 18 December 2012

Uncomplicated depression is normal sadness, not depressive disorder: further evidence from the NESARC

scientific article

Validity of the bereavement exclusion to major depression: does the empirical evidence support the proposal to eliminate the exclusion in DSM-5?

scientific article published on February 2012

When does depression become a disorder? Using recurrence rates to evaluate the validity of proposed changes in major depression diagnostic thresholds.

scientific article published on February 2013

Wittgenstein's nightmare: why the RDoC grid needs a conceptual dimension.

scientific article published on February 2014

List of works by Jerome Wakefield

Against utility

Are there relational disorders? A harmful dysfunction perspective: comment on the special section.

Are you as smart as a 4th grader? Why the prototype-similarity approach to diagnosis is a step backward for a scientific psychiatry.

Attachment and sibling rivalry in Little Hans: the fantasy of the two giraffes revisited.

Can the DSM's major depression bereavement exclusion be validly extended to other stressors? Evidence from the NCS.

Clarifying the boundary between normality and disorder: a fundamental conceptual challenge for psychiatry.

DSM-5 proposed diagnostic criteria for sexual paraphilias: tensions between diagnostic validity and forensic utility.

DSM-5 substance use disorder: how conceptual missteps weakened the foundations of the addictive disorders field.

DSM-5, psychiatric epidemiology and the false positives problem.

DSM-5: proposed changes to depressive disorders.

Defining 'mental disorder' in DSM-V. A commentary on: 'What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V' by Stein et al. (2010).

Diagnosing DSM-IV--Part I: DSM-IV and the concept of disorder.

Diagnosing DSM-IV--Part II: Eysenck (1986) and the essentialist fallacy.

Diagnostic Issues and Controversies in DSM-5: Return of the False Positives Problem.

Diagnostic criteria as dysfunction indicators: bridging the chasm between the definition of mental disorder and diagnostic criteria for specific disorders.

Diagnostic validity and the definition of mental disorder: a program for conceptually advancing psychiatry.

Differential diagnosis of depressive illness versus intense normal sadness: how significant is the 'clinical significance criterion' for major depression?

Disorder as harmful dysfunction: a conceptual critique of DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder

Does the harm component of the harmful dysfunction analysis need rethinking?: Reply to Powell and Scarffe

Dysfunction as a factual component of disorder.

Evolutionary history versus current causal role in the definition of disorder: reply to McNally.

Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder.

Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey.

Fallacious reasoning in the argument to eliminate the major depression bereavement exclusion in DSM-5 ⬇️

False positives in psychiatric diagnosis: implications for human freedom.

Feelings of worthlessness during a single complicated major depressive episode predict postremission suicide attempt

Female primary orgasmic dysfunction: Masters and Johnson versus DSM-III-R on diagnosis and incidence

How Many People have Alcohol Use Disorders? Using the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis to Reconcile Prevalence Estimates in Two Community Surveys.

Limits of operationalization: a critique of Spitzer and Endicott's (1978) proposed operational criteria for mental disorder.

Little Hans and attachment theory: Bowlby's hypothesis reconsidered in light of new evidence from the Freud Archives.

Little Hans and the thought police: the 'policeman fantasies' as the first reported supervisory transference fantasies.

Lowered estimates--but of what?

Mapping melancholia: the continuing typological challenge for major depression.

Misdiagnosing normality: Psychiatry's failure to address the problem of false positive diagnoses of mental disorder in a changing professional environment.

Placing symptoms in context: the role of contextual criteria in reducing false positives in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnoses.

Predictive validation of single-episode uncomplicated depression as a benign subtype of unipolar major depression.

Recurrence of depression after bereavement-related depression: evidence for the validity of DSM-IV bereavement exclusion from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study.

Relation between duration and severity in bereavement‐related depression ⬇️

Reply

Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V.

Screening for depression in general medical practice: how can natural sadness be distinguished from major depressive disorder?

Severity of complicated versus uncomplicated subthreshold depression: New evidence on the "Monotonicity Thesis" from the national comorbidity survey.

Sexual dysfunction or pain disorder?: dyspareunia from the perspective of the harmful dysfunction analysis

Should prolonged grief be reclassified as a mental disorder in DSM-5?: reconsidering the empirical and conceptual arguments for complicated grief disorder.

Should screening for depression among children and adolescents be demedicalized?

Should uncomplicated bereavement-related depression be reclassified as a disorder in the DSM-5? Response to Kenneth S. Kendler's statement defending the proposal to eliminate the bereavement exclusion.

Symptom data reanalysis disconfirms Parker et al.'s claim that latent class analysis identifies melancholic depression.

Symptom quality versus quantity in judging prognosis: Using NESARC predictive validators to locate uncomplicated major depression on the number-of-symptoms severity continuum.

The biostatistical theory versus the harmful dysfunction analysis, part 1: is part-dysfunction a sufficient condition for medical disorder?

The concept of disorder as a foundation for the DSM's theory-neutral nosology: response to Follette and Houts, Part 2.

The concept of mental disorder. On the boundary between biological facts and social values

The concept of mental disorder: diagnostic implications of the harmful dysfunction analysis.

The editor's dilemma: how DSM politics are turning psychiatry into a pseudoscience.

The effect of group treatment of primary orgasmic dysfunction on the marital relationship

The expansion of post-traumatic stress disorder: some issues regarding diagnosis and treatment.

The harmful dysfunction model of alcohol use disorder: revised criteria to improve the validity of diagnosis and prevalence estimates

The importance and limits of harm in identifying mental disorder.

The myth of DSM's invention of new categories of disorder: Houts's diagnostic discontinuity thesis disconfirmed.

The perils of dimensionalization: challenges in distinguishing negative traits from personality disorders.

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis.

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion.

Uncomplicated depression is normal sadness, not depressive disorder: further evidence from the NESARC

Validity of the bereavement exclusion to major depression: does the empirical evidence support the proposal to eliminate the exclusion in DSM-5?

When does depression become a disorder? Using recurrence rates to evaluate the validity of proposed changes in major depression diagnostic thresholds.

Wittgenstein's nightmare: why the RDoC grid needs a conceptual dimension.