Encyclopedia of Pain

2013 Edition
| Editors: Gerald F. Gebhart, Robert F. Schmidt

Psychiatric Disorder

Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28753-4_201809

Definition

Psychiatric disorder is a term usually reserved for conditions that have met defined diagnostic criteria in a system of psychiatric classification.

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