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Reliability of a Procedure for Measuring and Classifying “Present Psychiatric State”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. K. Wing ,
J. L. T. Birley ,
J. E. Cooper ,
P. Graham  and
A. D. Isaacs
J. K. Wing
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Social Psychiatry Research Unity The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
J. L. T. Birley
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Social Psychiatry Research Unity The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
J. E. Cooper
Affiliation:
Bilateral Diagnostic Study, Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
P. Graham
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
A. D. Isaacs
Affiliation:
Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey
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It is generally agreed that psychiatric illnesses can fairly reliably be categorized into four broad groups—organic psychoses, functional psychoses, neuroses and personality disorders. Cases are assigned with greatest confidence to the first group and with least confidence to the fourth. The reliability of specific diagnoses within these classes is much less secure and decreases in the same order. The best recent reviews of the literature are by Kreitman (1961) and Foulds (1965).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 498 , May 1967 , pp. 499 - 515
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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