title: Psychiatric diagnoses; problems rather than solutions.
abstract: Psychiatric diagnoses are confusing; there are no unequivocal physical markers for psychiatric illness. What are symptoms and what is illness have come to be determined by a checklist in the two leading diagnostic manuals, DSM IV TR and ICD-10. This aids consistency and reliability in terminology and appeals to the legal mind but there are a number of issues which are worth further consideration.
authors.affiliation: Middlesex University.
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weller
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*