Seven reasons why binary diagnostic categories should be replaced with empirically sounder and less stigmatizing dimensions

• Published in: JCPP advances Vol. 2; no. 4; pp. e12108 - n/a
• Main Authors: Lahey, Benjamin B., Tiemeier, Henning, Krueger, Robert F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2022; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: dimensional approach; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Psychiatrists; Psychologists; Psychopathology; Research Review; Stigma; taxonomy; stigma; dimensional approach; taxonomy

Background An ongoing positive revolution advocates a new approach to the individual differences in human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that cause distress and impair functioning. This revolution endorses the long‐proposed, but still unrealized rejection of the medical model, which attributes p...