How does a psychiatrist infer from an observed condition to a case of mental disorder?

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 979-983

  Lemoine, Maël ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Universite Paris 2   (France)

Author keywords

clinical reasoning; diagnosis; DSM; mental disorder; psychiatry; psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

HUMANS; INTUITION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 84866687232     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01904.x     Document Type: Article

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