Introduction and background
Emergence of dissatisfaction with the DSM / Mary L. Malik and Larry E. Beutler
Discovery, invention, and the expansion of the modern "Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of Mental Disorders" / Arthur C. Houts
Methodological considerations
Implications of information-gathering methods for a refined taxonomy of psychopathology / Gregory J. Meyer
Taxometrics can do diagnostics rights / Thomas E. Joiner, Jr., and Norman B. Schmidt
Psychiatric classification through the lens of ethnobiology / Elizabeth H. Flanagan and Roger K. Blashfield
Representational alternatives
Assessing psychopathology: a narrative approach / Oscar F. Goncalves ...[et al.]
Operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics: a new diagnostic approach in psychodynamic psychotherapy / Wolfgang Schneider ...[et al.]
Child and adolescent diagnosis: the need for a model-based approach / Ann Doucette
Simplifying diagnosis using a prototype-matching approach: implications for the next edition of the DSM / Drew Westen ..[et al.]
Diagnosis and treatment guidelines: the example of depression / Larry E. Beutler and Mary L. Malik
To Honor Kraepelin...: from symptoms to pathology in the diagnosis of mental illness / John F. Kihlstrom.