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Clinical Phenotypes: Problems in Diagnosis

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Genetic Research in Psychiatry

Abstract

Looking back at the proceedings of our last conference, I saw that I had discussed unreliability in psychiatric diagnoses. However, the primary problem in psychiatric diagnosis no longer can be said to be unreliability. Fortunately, substantial and impressive progress has been made during the past two decades. We now face a more complex and perhaps less tractable issue — the validity of diagnosis. One reason to be less sanguine about progress in improving validity compared to reliability is that, while we can reliably measure reliability, identifying a clear-cut criterion for validity is problematic. If one wants to improve something, it is helpful, if not necessary, to be able to measure it.

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  1. Hôpital Erasme, University Hospital of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Julien Mendlewicz

  2. University of Munich, Nussbaumstrasse 7, D-W-8000, München 2, Germany

    Hanns Hippius (Head of Dept. of Psychiatry) (Head of Dept. of Psychiatry)

  3. Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Munich, Nussbaumstrasse 7, D-W-8000, München 2, Germany

    Brigitta Bondy  & Manfred Ackenheil  & 

  4. Department of Chemical Pathology, Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, Goldhawk Road, W6 OXG, London, UK

    Merton Sandler

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Tsuang, M.T., Lyons, M.J., Faraone, S.V. (1992). Clinical Phenotypes: Problems in Diagnosis. In: Mendlewicz, J., Hippius, H., Bondy, B., Ackenheil, M., Sandler, M. (eds) Genetic Research in Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46762-2_15

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