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Journal Article
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Steve Sussman; Erika Wright Abstract This essay seeks to illuminate the shifting definitions of addiction over time by providing a brief, anecdotal history of addiction as well as a review of how it has been conceptualized by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM classification system. While...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
... entity. In the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ( DSM-IV , 1994), a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) required that the patient not only be exposed to a traumatizing event but also have a specific emotional response to that event—that is, the objective stressor...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... challenges of defining a concept that so many readers and writers imagine they already know. As Sussman and Wright illuminate in detail, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), which helps physicians diagnose and categorize illnesses, continues to debate what to call...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 September 2007
... the contradiction w ith in medical discourse in the face of diverse human experience. This statement is telling insofar as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, better known as the DSM-IV, identifies transsexuality as a mental illness. Bree demonstrates the overlap of transexuality...
