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Mellsop G, Menkes D, El-Badri S. Releasing psychiatry from the constraints of categorical diagnosis. Australas Psychiatry. 2007;15(1):3-5; discussion 6-8doi: 10.1080/10398560601083134.
Mellsop, G., Menkes, D., & El-Badri, S. (2007). Releasing psychiatry from the constraints of categorical diagnosis. Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 15(1), 3-5; discussion 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10398560601083134
Mellsop, Graham, et al. "Releasing psychiatry from the constraints of categorical diagnosis." Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists vol. 15,1 (2007): 3-5; discussion 6-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10398560601083134
Mellsop G, Menkes D, El-Badri S. Releasing psychiatry from the constraints of categorical diagnosis. Australas Psychiatry. 2007 Feb;15(1):3-5; discussion 6-8. doi: 10.1080/10398560601083134. PMID: 17464624.
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Australas Psychiatry. 2007 Feb;15(1):3-5; discussion 6-8. doi: 10.1080/10398560601083134.

Releasing psychiatry from the constraints of categorical diagnosis.

Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Graham Mellsop, David Menkes, Selim El-Badri

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  1. Waikato Clinical School, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. [email protected]

PMID: 17464624 DOI: 10.1080/10398560601083134

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to make a case for freeing psychiatry from the limits of categorical diagnosis.

CONCLUSIONS: From Pinel through to Kraepelin, Bleuler, DSM-IV and ICD-10, clinical and research activities in psychiatry have all depended upon categorical classification. Recent decades have seen increasing argument in favour of dimensional measurement, description and prediction, in part because invalidities in categorical classification are becoming impossible to deny. Some suggestions for developing useful dimensional approaches are made.

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