Against the Stream: Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) – a redundant diagnosis

The diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder is a distraction of no value. It is highly unreliable, co-occurring with many other disorders of firmer diagnostic status, and has intrinsic connections to personality dysfunction. It is argued that classification would be heartily relieved to rid itself...

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Autor principal: Tyrer, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Special Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29490712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2017.12
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spelling pubmed-60018532018-06-15 Against the Stream: Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) – a redundant diagnosis Tyrer, Peter BJPsych Bull Special Articles The diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder is a distraction of no value. It is highly unreliable, co-occurring with many other disorders of firmer diagnostic status, and has intrinsic connections to personality dysfunction. It is argued that classification would be heartily relieved to rid itself of this unnecessary appendage and for the symptom of anxiety to remain as a descriptive term only. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. Cambridge University Press 2018-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6001853/ /pubmed/29490712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2017.12 Text en © The Author 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29490712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2017.12
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