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A comment on DSM-IV's diagnostic taxa
1Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University; Burnaby, B.C. Canada ecoles@sfu.ca
Psychological Reports
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
It is suggested that the current American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic and statistical manual does not distinguish between natural or identity categories and artificial or equivalence categories and that, while this has facilitated research on social policy, it has hampered the development of therapies.