Posted by Sad Sara on November 5, 2004, at 14:24:23
In reply to Re: Psychiatry should be replaced with neurology » Sad Sara, posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2004, at 13:52:35
> > You are mixing a bit here... "Psychiatry" is a branch in medicine, I think you are thinking of Psychology.
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> Nope, I meant psychiatry. The DSM is a psychiatric classification system that lists different mental disorders according to syndrome. There is dispute around whether the current disorders / syndromes are discrete and valid. Some people prefer a symptom approach, so that the focus of research is individual symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations rather than greater syndromes which are diagnosed on the basis of a patients meeting some prescribed threshold for displaying a certian number of symptoms. There is a concern that by taking syndromes as the basic unit of research the clinical samples are too heterogeneous as different people may meet criteria on the basis of displaying different symptoms. A consequence of this may be that we miss interesting generalisations that apply to subjects with the same symptom, such as hallucinations or delusions.
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Ok, then I understand what you mean too. Though both DSM IV-R and ICD are both used among psychiatrists and psychologist, and a lot of poeple seem to think that because psychologists don't have a medical background they are more a pseudo science than psychiatry. Which at some apsects could be true, and on other aspect could be false.There is lamost the same amount of cons as pros in using a diagnostic manual as DSM, but it is important to keep that discussion up so its a greater chance that a better diagnositc manual can be made.
I think I misunderstood you because the beginning of the thread was mixing psychology with psychiatry, I apologize correcting something that was not wrong :-)
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