title: The DSM-III classification of the functional psychoses and the Norwegian tradition.
abstract: The relationship of the DSM-III categories to the national diagnostic usage of ICD is of importance for communication between psychiatrists. Here the theoretical relationship between the DSM-III categories and the Norwegian use of ICD-8 within the area of functional psychoses is discussed. An empirical investigation of these theoretical assumptions has been done on a hospital material diagnosed independently in the two classificatory systems. The empirical investigation gives support to the concordance of DSM-III schizophreniform, schizoaffective, and bipolar disorder and the Norwegian ICD-8 counterparts. The concordance is less for schizophrenic disorders and major depression. It is also found that the Norwegian diagnoses of reactive psychoses spread over many DSM-III diagnoses. In particular more of the reactive psychoses than predicted fall within the schizophrenic spectrum of DSM-III.
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authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Dahl
mesh_terms: D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D009664:Norway; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000145:classification; D011599:Psychopathology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification