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Psychiatry to some extent depends for its existence as a medical specialty on the distinction between mental and somatic disorders
I'm not saying you're wrong, Rob. I'm just asking for some back-up before we "go live" with the "facts". --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 13:51, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
I'm not saying you're wrong, Rob. I'm just asking for some back-up before we "go live" with the "facts". --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 13:51, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*What makes a medical disorder mental rather than (exclusively) somatic or physical? Psychiatry to some extent depends for its existence as a medical specialty on the distinction between mental and somatic disorders, yet the history of this distinction presents a bewildering array of puzzling judgments, radical shifts, and seemingly arbitrary distinctions. The historical observation that putative mental disorders are often reclassified as physical disorders as soon as their physiologic basis is understood further confuses matters. Moreover, recent debates about such classifications often seem to reflect desires to protect professional turf or obtain optimal reimbursement for treatment more than they do the application of a coherent conceptual distinction. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/philosophy_psychiatry_and_psychology/v013/13.2wakefield.html]