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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1999
Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV), its purposes and limitations, and the psychiatric nosologies which may emerge from advances in psychiatric research and which may supersede the current classification system.
A J, Frances, H L, Egger
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Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV), its purposes and limitations, and the psychiatric nosologies which may emerge from advances in psychiatric research and which may supersede the current classification system.
A J, Frances, H L, Egger
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The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1987
This report contains a theoretical discussion of psychiatric diagnosis and reflects a broad cross-cultural perspective. The current theory that appears to underlie psychiatric diagnosis in biomedicine is outlined and examined from the standpoint of its similarities and differences to diagnostic systems in other, more elementary, systems of medicine ...
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This report contains a theoretical discussion of psychiatric diagnosis and reflects a broad cross-cultural perspective. The current theory that appears to underlie psychiatric diagnosis in biomedicine is outlined and examined from the standpoint of its similarities and differences to diagnostic systems in other, more elementary, systems of medicine ...
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The survival of psychiatric diagnosis
Social Science & Medicine, 2007Past and current debates about applying medical diagnoses to psychological difference in society are examined. Beginning with a brief historical overview from antiquity to 'anti-psychiatry' and a summary of recent debates, the article then offers two case studies of common diagnoses ('depression' and 'schizophrenia').
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A Model for Psychiatric Diagnosis
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1966THE ADVANCE of any science requires a widely shared and explicit definition of the phenomena which it studies. For effective clinical intervention and research psychiatry needs a reliable classification system to facilitate communication among its professionals. At present there is a commonly held impression, backed by a number of studies, 1-8 that the
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The Biases of Psychiatric Diagnosis
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1989Psychiatric diagnosis tests the hypothesis that particular signs and symptoms, when regularly found together, belong to a particular class. The class concerned, in turn, is usually part of a taxonomic system, and which system one chooses will depend on the aim and function of diagnosis (treatment, research, administration, etc.).
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, 2009 Psychiatric diagnosis is one of the most important topics within the broad field of psychiatry. Clear, accurate definitions of the various disorders are essential for clinicians around the world to be confident that they are classifying patients in the ...
Salloum, Ihsan M, Mezzich, Juan E
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The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Journal of Mental Science, 1961No observation can be incorporated satisfactorily in a body of knowledge unless its reliability, however defined, is also known. In psychiatry, the concept of reliability has in great measure been transplanted from clinical psychology, but its optimal application to meet psychiatric needs requires some attention.For the purposes of psychiatry ...
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A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1964M G, SANDIFER, C, PETTUS, D, QUADE
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