Robert Spitzer's legacy: agreement is halfway to truth

Bob Spitzer died in December 2015 but is not likely to be forgotten quickly. His Herculean task in reforming psychiatric diagnosis, mainly by the development of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980, has been acknowledged by many, but it remains unfin...

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Autor principal: Tyrer, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29731000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2018.22
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description Bob Spitzer died in December 2015 but is not likely to be forgotten quickly. His Herculean task in reforming psychiatric diagnosis, mainly by the development of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980, has been acknowledged by many, but it remains unfinished. To complete the process, we need more than good diagnostic reliability, we need better veracity. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None.
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spelling pubmed-61899822018-10-19 Robert Spitzer's legacy: agreement is halfway to truth Tyrer, Peter BJPsych Bull Special Articles Bob Spitzer died in December 2015 but is not likely to be forgotten quickly. His Herculean task in reforming psychiatric diagnosis, mainly by the development of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980, has been acknowledged by many, but it remains unfinished. To complete the process, we need more than good diagnostic reliability, we need better veracity. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. Cambridge University Press 2018-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6189982/ /pubmed/29731000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2018.22 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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