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Methodological Issues in Psychiatric Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

A. Jablensky
A. Jablensky*
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, Medical Academy, 1431 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Abstract

Against the background of impressive advances in the neurosciences, which are opening new perspectives on the mechanisms of mind, and the development of increasingly powerful instruments and methods with a potential to revolutionise clinical research in psychiatry, clinicians continue to disagree on the definition and taxonomy of the elementary units of observation in their universe of discourse: the individual mental disorders.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue S1: Psychiatric classification in an international perspective , May 1988 , pp. 15 - 20
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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