title: [Biographic diagnosis--a critical review].
abstract: Within the framework of clinical psychology and stress research biographic diagnosis is becoming more and more important. In addition to classical anamnesis, the virtues and limitations of so-called biographic questionnaires and life-event inventories, the chief methods of biographic diagnosis, have been discussed for several years. Following a brief evaluation of anamnesis and biographic questionnaires, the author derives conclusions, based on a method-critical analysis of life-event research, for the arrangement of such life-event inventories.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Biografische Diagnostik--Eine kritische Ubersicht.