Are psychiatric diagnoses capricious?
Race and gender biases, for example, profoundly influence psychiatric diagnoses.
Joining the participants were three experts - people whose job it is to make psychiatric diagnoses.
Most psychiatric diagnoses have specific criteria that require a certain degree of functional impairment.
The most prevalent nineteenth-century psychiatric diagnoses, hysteria and neurasthenia, are not even recognized today.
How ought we to think about moral culpability in an age of psychiatric diagnoses?
Readers would never know, for example, how often it is valuable in selecting among psychiatric diagnoses.
Because of the difficulty of measuring the brain, psychiatric diagnoses are still mainly based on symptoms.
And then there were his psychiatric diagnoses: reactive depression with psychotic features, possibly an underlying character disorder.
Currently, using the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, children's psychiatric diagnoses are based on groups of symptoms.
Research has shown that many psychiatric diagnoses are at least as reliable and valid as medical diagnoses.
