Who needs change? Moving from research to clinical studies.
Classification in psychiatry serves as a basis for communication within science, as a basis of information retrieval, as a descriptive system, as a source for the construction of theories, and finally as a basis for making predictions. Not only has research diagnostic criteria had significant importance to research, but they can now serve the clinician equally well as exemplified by DSM III.
D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis