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The DSM‐III classification of the functional psychoses and the Norwegian tradition
Author(s) -
Dahl Alv A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb10523.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , concordance , medical diagnosis , schizoaffective disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , bipolar disorder , psychology , icd 10 , clinical psychology , schizophrenia spectrum , psychiatric diagnosis , psychosis , medicine , cognition , philosophy , linguistics , pathology
The relationship of the DSM‐III categories to the national diagnostic usage of ICD is of importance for communication between psychiatrists. Here the theoretical relationship between the DSM‐III categories and the Norwegian use of ICD‐8 within the area of functional psychoses is discussed. An empirical investigation of these theoretical assumptions has been done on a hospital material diagnosed independently in the two classificatory systems. The empirical investigation gives support to the concordance of DSM‐III schizophreniform, Schizoaffective, and bipolar disorder and the Norwegian ICD‐8 Counterparts. The concordance is less for schizophrenic disorders and major depressoin. It is also found that the norwegian diagnoses of reactive psychoses spread over may DSM‐III diagnoses. In particular more of the reactive psychoses than predicted fall within the schizophrenic spectrum of DSM‐III.