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A proposal for a new multiaxial model of psychiatric diagnosis. A continuum-based patient model derived from evolutionary developmental gene-environment interaction.
Psychopathology - 1 Jan 2009
Leigh Hoyle
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: To review recent genetic and neuroscientific research on psychiatric syndromes based on the current diagnostic scheme, and develop a better-fitting multiaxial patient-oriented diagnostic model. METHODS: DSM I, published in 1952, considered psychiatric illnesses as reactions or extremes of adaptations of the patient's personality to stressful environmental demands. Personality itself was...
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