Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
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Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, United States

Publications

• Review Article   
  Attention-deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders. A Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Reflection
  Author(s): Wilfried Ver Eecke*
  
  The authors of DSM-IV assemble four disorders under the general heading of attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders. The fourth one is a left-over category: Adisruptive behavior disorder not otherwise specified. We are thus left with the following three: 1) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 2) Conduct disorder. 3) Oppositional defiant disorder. I am struck by the fact that an enumeration of the diagnostic features of ADHD just as those of conducts disorder and of oppositional defiant disorder contain many items related to not following rules. I will concentrate on this one feature of these three disorders. I will ask if there could be any objective reasons why the children affected by these disorders are compelled or encouraged to avoid or to oppose rules. Another way of approaching the problem is to ask if there are specific difficulties encoun.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-0487.21.11.406

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