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Feighner / St Louis Group Diagnostic Criteria

This paper is important because its classification was adopted by the Research Diagnostic Criteria, which was then adopted by DSM-III. Hence this paper was a precursor to modern psychiatric classification. It should be noted that certain statements in this paper do not necessarily reflect the political views of the authors, rather they were the general view held in psychiatry in the early 1970s.

“Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychiatric Research”

1972

JP Feighner, E Robbins, SB Guze, RA Woodruff, G Winokur, R Munoz

Archives of General Psychiatry. vol 26 pp 57-63

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Abstract

Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses (and for secondary depression) along with the validating evidence for these diagnostic categories comes from workers outside our group as well as from those within; it consists of studies of both outpatients and inpatients, of family studies, and of follow-up studies. These criteria are the most efficient currently available; however, it is expected that the criteria be tested and not be considered a final, closed system. It is expected that the criteria will change as various illnesses are studied by different groups. Such criteria provide a framework for comparison of data gathered in different centers, and serve to promote communication between investigators.

Copyright holder: American Medical Association

Number of times cited: 543 (Estimated by Google Scholar)

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