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A 6 page research paper that contrasts the mental disorders of Paranoia and Schizophrenia. Diagnoses of mental disorders, as standardized by the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), distinguished between Schizoid Personality Disorder and Paranoid Personality Disorder, yet these two diagnoses have very similar symptoms. This brings up the question of what constitutes the difference between these two disorders and what these differences mean in terms of understanding the general topic of mental disorders. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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these two diagnoses have very similar symptoms. This brings up the question of what constitutes the difference between these two disorders and what these differences mean in terms of understanding
the general topic of mental disorders. Having an explicit standard diagnostic criteria has enabled clinicians to achieve "better diagnostic agreement and
improve communication," which includes more accurate reporting of "psychiatric morbidity, services, treatments and outcomes" (Kendell and Jablensky, 2003, p. 4). The inherent assumption in diagnosing mental disorders is that there
are discrete boundaries between the various mental disorders in the DSM. Many clinicians working in mental health have long recognized that the various diagnostic categories are simply concepts, which are
"justified only by whether they provide a useful framework for organizing and explaining the complexity of clinical experience in order to derive inferences about outcome and to guide decisions about
treatment" (Kendell and Jablensky, 2003, p. 4). Citing the DSM-IV, Kendell and Jablensky indicate that the authors of this manual are careful to indicate that there is, in their text,
"no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries dividing it from other mental disorders or no mental disorder" (Kendell and Jablensky, 2003,
p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perception that there are distinct boundaries between the disorders.
Their analysis causes Kendell and Jablensky to conclude that the concept of mental disorders provides "invaluable working concepts for clinicians," but that it should be acknowledged that there are overlapping
boundaries between diagnostic symptoms and the orders that they are presumed to represent. Citing the DSM-IV, Grohol (2006a) indicates that
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