Diagnostic Interviews

Lee Carlisle; Jon McClellan

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Chapter 7. Diagnostic Interviews

Lee Carlisle, M.D.; Jon M. McClellan, M.D.

DOI: 10.1176/appi.books.9781585623921.452882

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The clinical interview remains the primary diagnostic tool for psychiatry. Despite extensive international research efforts, no valid biological markers with clinical utility for classifying psychiatric syndromes have yet been identified. Thus, the diagnostic process remains embedded within consensus-based, criterion-derived categories, using traditional interview and mental status examinations that define traditional medicine.

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