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Psychiatric classification and subjective experience

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>04/2012
<mark>Journal</mark>Emotion Review
Issue number2
Volume4
Number of pages6
Pages (from-to)197-202
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This article does not directly consider the feelings and emotions that occur in mental illness. Rather, it concerns a higher level methodological question: To what extent is an analysis of feelings and felt emotions of importance for psychiatric classification? Some claim that producing a phenomenologically informed descriptive psychopathology is a prerequisite for serious taxonomic endeavor. Others think that classifications of mental disorders may ignore subjective experience. A middle view holds that classification should at least map the contours of the phenomenology of mental illness. This article examines these options. I conclude that it is not true that phenomenology is a logical prerequisite for classification, nor even that classification should necessarily respect phenomenological boundaries, but that detailed phenomenological examination can sometimes inform classification.

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The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Emotion Review, 4 (2), 2012, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Emotion Review page: http://emr.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/