id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_3eofis4c7ngkzi73feaqqlsx2i Kathryn Tabb Psychiatric Progress and the Assumption of Diagnostic Discrimination 2015 21 .pdf application/pdf 6693 447 48 psychiatry's validity crisis, it has been suggested, is to refocus psychiatric research on causal Here I argue that the DSM stands in the way of valid diagnostic categories not merely assumption of diagnostic discrimination in psychiatric research, specifically when that research the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, a new classification tool for psychiatric that is, the assumption that our diagnostic tests1 group patients together in ways that allow for relevant facts about original valid inferences about the nature of psychiatric disorder.6 This effect is due to the widelyheld but, I have argued, unjustified assumption in psychiatry that the manual's categories are the diagnostic discrimination cannot be found in the DSM's history or biomedical psychiatry's track diagnostic discrimination a prerequisite for psychiatric research. assumption that the DSM's criteria are discriminative for research purposes. whether the DSM's diagnostic criteria are indeed discriminative. "Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychiatric Research." Archives of General ./cache/work_3eofis4c7ngkzi73feaqqlsx2i.pdf ./txt/work_3eofis4c7ngkzi73feaqqlsx2i.txt