What are the functions of psychiatric classifications?
Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2021-12-01; 66: 102893
DOI: 10.1016/J.AJP.2021.102893
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1. Asian J Psychiatr. 2021 Dec;66:102893. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102893. Epub
2021 Oct 21.
What are the functions of psychiatric classifications?
Gauld C(1).
Author information:
(1)Department of Psychiatry, University of Grenoble, Avenue du Maquis du
Grésivaudan, 38 000 Grenoble, France; UMR CNRS 8590 IHPST, Sorbonne University,
Paris 1, France. Electronic address: .
Faced with clinical, methodological, conceptual and modeling challenges,
psychiatric nosology turned forty years ago towards a descriptive approach, with
the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-III). More recently, the discipline has sought answers in precision
medicine and biomarkers, e.g., with the Research Domain Criteria project of the
National Institute for Mental Health, towards statistical and dimensional
approaches, e.g., the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology, or towards
dynamic (e.g., staging models) and computational approaches (e.g., symptom
network in psychopathology). However, despite these attempts to guardedly move
away from a descriptive perspective, the functions of classifications have
remained the same in psychiatry over time. These functions could be seen as the
guarantee of a stable ground for psychiatry, and it seems necessary that they be
made explicit from methodological and deontological points of view.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102893
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