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At a time when psychiatric diagnosis is again being questioned as to its validity and to the harm it might cause when improperly used, we must turn our attention to the pillars of diagnostic precision. Among the various psychiatric researchers that emerged in the 20th century dealing with the medical model, Jose Leme Lopes (19041990) stands out for his fundamental work. His important scientific contribution was the main subject of his 1954 thesis, published as a book in the same year (Figure 1): The dimensions of psychiatric diagnosis (contribution to its systematization). At the time, his idea of psychiatric diagnosis was a new multi-axial conception, which would earn him a well-deserved homage and broad recognition abroad for the role it would play in the formulation of new nosological classifications suggested by the World Health Organization and by the American Psychiatric Association. The important contribution of this book was further recognized internationally when its original cover page was reproduced in the 6th edition of Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. Leme Lopes fought for a scientific psychiatry with ties to medicine and taking into account the contribution of other aspects of human thought. In his book, Leme Lopes presented the difficulties in precise psychiatric diagnosis as a main problem of our clinical and research practice. Diagnosis is the fundamental process in all medical practice, and psychiatry could not be different. The dimensions of psychiatric diagnosis was republished and updated in 1980. In this edition, the book has 10 chapters, only the first five of which belonged to the original edition. The original five chapters are: ‘‘The vicissitudes of psychiatric diagnosis’’; ‘‘The dissolution of the diagnosis’’; ‘‘The reconstruction of the diagnosis’’; ‘‘The development of the diagnostic problem’’; and ‘‘Diagnosis nowadays.’’ The updated edition had five more chapters: ‘‘The diagnostic evaluation’’; ‘‘Standard diagnostic interviews’’; ‘‘The diagnostic dimensions and the dynamic pluridimensional diagnosis’’; ‘‘The diagnosis procedure’’; and ‘‘The ICD-9.’’ Throughout the book, one can recognize the tremendous psychopathological, philosophical, and scientific background of Leme Lopes. He magnificently mastered each point of the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. The psychiatric interview, the history of symptoms, the psychopathological and physical examinations, the

Sixty years (1954-2014) of José Leme Lopes's fundamental book: As dimensões do diagnóstico psiquiátrico