La clasificación internacional de enfermedades y los conceptos del diagnóstico psiquiátrico / The international classification of diseases and the concepts of psychiatric diagnosis

ABSTRACT

Major problems in reaching agreement on an international classification of diseases are (a) the difference in perception of symptoms and (b) difference in inference and interpretation of the meaning of the symptom in diagnostic terms. These problems are amply illustrated by international diagnostic exercises and by a joint United States-United Kingdom exercise(AU)