Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds: Changing Views of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Clarification

Diagnostic manuals treat diagnoses as standalone occurrences—yet everyday psychiatry is saturated with comorbidities, diagnostic instabilities, and other issues.  

What’s missing? A conceptual orientation that acknowledges a dynamic structure while being usable in a clinical setting. 

In this Sheppard Pratt Grand Rounds lecture, Awais Aftab, MD, Case Western Reserve University and Southwest Medical Center, will supply that needed orientation. Dr. Aftab will discuss neo-Kraepelinian assumptions and help clinicians derive a pluralistic diagnostic approach. 

Learning objectives: 
  • Describe the historical development of Kraepelinian and neo-Kraepelinian psychiatric classifications 
  • Analyze how questions of classification have intersected with questions about the nature of mental illness 
  • Identify contemporary developments in dimensional approaches to psychopathology