Classification of mental disorders VS. Systematization of behavioural deviations: Medicalization as trend

Abstract

Article is devoted to the analysis of validity of changes of classifications of mental and behavioural disorders due to inclusion of deviant forms of behavior and a medicalization of ordinary life. The conclusion that the problem of differentiation of psychopathological symptoms from behavioural pathology is insufficiently worked is drawn. It is noted that in modern psychiatry there is no unambiguous definition of behavioural disorders that complicates their differentiation, on the one hand, with psychopathological symptoms, with another, with deviations of behavior. New systematization of behavioural pathology with allocation of primary, secondary and tertiary disorders is offered.

Keywords

• психические и поведенческие расстройства
• классификация
• медикализация
• mental and behavioural disorders
• classification
• medicalization