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ICD, Mental Disorder and British Nosologists: An assessment of the uniquely British contribution to psychiatric classification
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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During several recent international meetings on classification, there have been frequent references to national systems of classification developed and used in Europe, North America and many other countries. The UK has been notably absent from this list. As Professor Kendell, in his brief historical survey of the subject, points out: “British psychiatry does not have, and indeed never has had, any important diagnostic concepts of its own in the way that French, American, and Scandinavian psychiatry still do” (Kendell, 1985).
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