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| The concept of mental disorder: on the boundary between biological facts and social values. JC Wakefield American psychologist 47 (3), 373, 1992 | 2241 | 1992 |
| Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels. DM Buss, MG Haselton, TK Shackelford, AL Bleske, JC Wakefield American psychologist 53 (5), 533, 1998 | 1238 | 1998 |
| Disorder as harmful dysfunction: a conceptual critique of DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder. JC Wakefield Psychological review 99 (2), 232, 1992 | 1074 | 1992 |
| Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder. JC Wakefield Journal of abnormal psychology 108 (3), 374, 1999 | 590 | 1999 |
| Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V RL Spitzer, MB First, JC Wakefield Journal of anxiety disorders 21 (2), 233-241, 2007 | 555 | 2007 |
| The concept of mental disorder: diagnostic implications of the harmful dysfunction analysis JC Wakefield World psychiatry 6 (3), 149, 2007 | 512 | 2007 |
| DSM-IV diagnostic criterion for clinical significance: does it help solve the false positives problem? RL Spitzer, JC Wakefield American Journal of Psychiatry 156 (12), 1856-1864, 1999 | 478 | 1999 |
| Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey JC Wakefield, MF Schmitz, MB First, AV Horwitz Archives of general psychiatry 64 (4), 433-440, 2007 | 355 | 2007 |
| All we have to fear: Psychiatry's transformation of natural anxieties into mental disorders AV Horwitz, JC Wakefield Oxford University Press, 2012 | 280 | 2012 |
| Diagnosing DSM-IV—Part I: DSM-IV and the concept of disorder JC Wakefield Behaviour research and therapy 35 (7), 633-649, 1997 | 277 | 1997 |
| Psychotherapy, distributive justice, and social work: Part 1: Distributive justice as a conceptual framework for social work JC Wakefield Social Service Review 62 (2), 187-210, 1988 | 265 | 1988 |
| Diagnostic issues and controversies in DSM-5: return of the false positives problem JC Wakefield Annual review of clinical psychology 12 (1), 105-132, 2016 | 244 | 2016 |
| Does social work need the eco-systems perspective? Part 1. Is the perspective clinically useful? JC Wakefield Social service review 70 (1), 1-32, 1996 | 239 | 1996 |
| Mental disorder as a black box essentialist concept. JC Wakefield American Psychological Association 108 (3), 465, 1999 | 231 | 1999 |
| Validity of the bereavement exclusion to major depression: does the empirical evidence support the proposal to eliminate the exclusion in DSM-5? JC Wakefield, MB First World Psychiatry 11 (1), 3-10, 2012 | 210 | 2012 |
| DSM-5: An overview of changes and controversies JC Wakefield Clinical Social Work Journal 41, 139-154, 2013 | 180 | 2013 |
| Should the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder consider social context? JC Wakefield, KJ Pottick, SA Kirk American Journal of Psychiatry 159 (3), 380-386, 2002 | 174 | 2002 |
| Limits of operationalization: a critique of Spitzer and Endicott's (1978) proposed operational criteria for mental disorder. JC Wakefield American Psychological Association 102 (1), 160, 1993 | 174 | 1993 |
| Clarifying the distinction between disorder and nondisorder: Confronting the overdiagnosis (False-positives) problem in DSM-V. JC Wakefield, MB First American Psychiatric Association, 2003 | 156 | 2003 |
