Who needs change? Moving from research to clinical studies
Morrison, J.R.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 41(12 Part 2): 16-20
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-6689 PMID: 7440520 Document Number: 162556
Classification in psychiatry serves as a basis for communication within science, as a basis of information retrieval, as a descriptive system, as a source for the construction of theories, and finally as a basis for making predictions. Not only has research diagnostic criteria had significant importance to research, but they can now serve the clinician equally well as exemplified by DSM III.