title: Prospects for a scientific psychiatry.
abstract: Herman van Praag has made major contributions to the scientific and conceptual development of psychiatry. Despite progress in delineating reliable diagnostic criteria, our classification system ignores clinical insights available from patients' subjective experiences of illness. Hence a 'coarsening of diagnosis' has occurred, weakening the nosologic infrastructure of scientific psychiatry. This paper will discuss these ideas and emphasize the central role of psychopharmacology in advancing psychiatry, with lithium's discovery as a paradigm.
authors.forename: F K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Goodwin
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Ghaemi