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