title: [The name, scales and diagnostic criteria. Current issues].
abstract: The scientific perspective incites modern psychiatry to base itself on quantification. But numbers have a double function, concrete and abstract, and this affects the meaning of statistics. Neglecting this property of each item and the associative character of the methods (scales, diagnostic criteria) will mean a risk of making the quantitative trend mythic to some degree, and may lead to a superficial, even deformed view of mental pathology.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marchais
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013223:Statistics as Topic
vernacular_title: Le nombre, les échelles et les critères diagnostiques. Problématique actuelle.