TY  - JOUR
T1  - Striving for coherence: Psychiatry’s efforts over classification
AU  - McHugh PR
Y1  - 2005/05/25
N1  - 10.1001/jama.293.20.2526
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2526
EP  - 2528
VL  - 293
IS  - 20
N2  - 
In the mid-20th century, Freudian psychoanalysts led the discipline
by teaching that unconscious mental conflict produced psychiatric disorders.
Because psychiatrists then wrapped all disorders into a single explanation
(and treated them similarly), they saw little point in sharply distinguishing
one manifestation of conflict from another. Although psychoanalytic influence
waned in the late 1960s, the diagnostic competence of psychiatrists, needed
for progress, did not improve. Even elementary census reports such as the
number of patients with schizophrenia who were admitted to mental hospitals
were invalid.2

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.293.20.2526
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.293.20.2526
ER  -