- Published: 4 May 2021
- ISBN: 9780262045643
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 640
- RRP: $260.00
Defining Mental Disorder
Jerome Wakefield and His Critics

















- Published: 4 May 2021
- ISBN: 9780262045643
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 640
- RRP: $260.00
"Gifted with clinical, research, and philosophical skills, Dr Wakefield has become the world's leading figure in spelling out the meaning of mental disorder and its implications... has the potential to change in the scope of future DSM's and to have broad implications for psychiatric research, clinical work, epidemiology, and forensics." --George Graham
Dr Wakefield: Gifted with clinical, research, and philosophical skills, Dr Wakefield has become the world's leading figure in spelling out the meaning of mental disorder and its implications. His views are the most carefully developed in the field, the ones to be reckoned with and he is well known both within the profession and to the public.
Impact: Dr Wakefield's work has the potential to change in the scope of future DSM's and to have broad implications for psychiatric research, clinical work, epidemiology, and forensics.