{"title":"A farewell to psychiatric diagnoses.","authors":"Trond F Aarre","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0386","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Psychiatric diagnostic categories are neither valid nor stable. They tell us little about the causes of the problems, the prognosis or what treatment might be beneficial. A psychiatric diagnosis must not therefore be a prerequisite for providing proper health care.","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0386","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/9/27 0:00:00","PubModel":"Print","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Psychiatric diagnostic categories are neither valid nor stable. They tell us little about the causes of the problems, the prognosis or what treatment might be beneficial. A psychiatric diagnosis must not therefore be a prerequisite for providing proper health care.