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The Biases of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

José Guimón
José Guimón*
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University of Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
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Psychiatric 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.). Diagnosis and classification involve a loss of information, the magnitude of which is determined by both the use to which the diagnosis has been put and the assumptions and theoretical orientation of the clinicians involved in the exercise.

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I. Nosological Aspects
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue S4: Psychiatric Diagnosis: Nosological, Biological and Psychological Aspects , May 1989 , pp. 33 - 37
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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