title: [Classification and psychiatric practice].
abstract: The DSM IV/CIM 10 classifications constitute an important effort to organize some aspects of psychiatric field. It represents a specific model--categorical, descriptive, discontinuous--aiming at identifying and classifying the mental disorders. The needs of daily psychiatric practice imply that the clinician should use new frames and models in which the dynamical, interactive, continuous component prevails.
authors.affiliation: Département de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie médicale, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferreri
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D015588:Observer Variation; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*