Psychiatric diagnoses; problems rather than solutions.
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.
Weller
Malcolm
M
Middlesex University.
D015897:Comorbidity; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*