Vagueness in Psychiatry

ISBN: 9780198722373 出版年：2016 页码：277 Oxford University Press

In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases are notoriously contentious.