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A Procedure to Graph the Quality of Psychosocial Functioning Affected by Symptom Severity

scientific article published in January 2016

A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11.

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A population-based study of KCNH7 p.Arg394His and bipolar spectrum disorder

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A practical prototypic system for psychiatric diagnosis: the ICD‐11 Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Adaptation in Delivering Integrated Care: The Tension Between Care and Evidence-Based Practice

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Adopting a continuous improvement model for future DSM revisions

scientific article published on October 2016

Adverse outcomes associated with personality disorder not otherwise specified in a community sample

scientific article published in October 2005

Aging-related diagnostic variations: need for diagnostic criteria appropriate for elderly psychiatric patients

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Alternative futures for the DSM revision process: iteration v. paradigm shift

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

An A to Z guide to DSM-IV conundrums

An examination of the diagnostic efficiency of post-deployment mental health screens.

scientific article published on 19 July 2012

Another perspective on "putting DSM-IV in perspective".

scientific article published in March 1999

Application of the ICD-11 classification of personality disorders

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

Association between television viewing and sleep problems during adolescence and early adulthood

scientific article published in June 2004

Association of Self-reported Religiosity with the Development of Major Depression in Multireligious Country Japan

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Beyond clinical utility: broadening the DSM-V research appendix to include alternative diagnostic constructs

scientific article published in October 2006

Body integrity identity disorder: the persistent desire to acquire a physical disability

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Changes in child and adolescent disorders, eating disorders, and the multiaxial system.

scientific article published in March 1994

Changes in mood, anxiety, and personality disorders

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Childhood malnutrition and maltreatment are linked with personality disorder symptoms in adulthood: Results from a Barbados lifespan cohort

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Chronic pain as a symptom or a disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Clarifying the boundary between normality and disorder: a fundamental conceptual challenge for psychiatry.

scientific article published in November 2013

Classification for clinical practice: how to make ICD and DSM better able to serve clinicians

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Classification in psychiatry: ICD-10 v. DSM-IV. A response

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Clinical Applications of Neuroimaging in Psychiatric Disorders

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Clinical reappraisal of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Screening Scales (CIDI-SC) in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)

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Clinical utility as a criterion for revising psychiatric diagnoses

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Clinical utility of ICD-11 diagnostic guidelines for high-burden mental disorders: results from mental health settings in 13 countries

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Clinical utility of five dimensional systems for personality diagnosis: a "consumer preference" study

scientific article published in May 2008

Clinical utility: a prerequisite for the adoption of a dimensional approach in DSM.

scientific article published on November 2005

Commentary on Krueger and Eaton's "Personality traits and the classification of mental disorders: toward a more complete integration in DSM-5 and an empirical model of psychopathology": real-world considerations in implementing an empirically based

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Comorbid Axis I and Axis II disorders in early adolescence: outcomes 20 years later

scientific article published in June 2008

Comorbid personality disorder and treatment use in a community sample of youths: a 20-year follow-up

scientific article published on January 2007

Complicated grief and manic comorbidity in the aftermath of the loss of a son.

scientific article published in September 2013

Complicated grief and related bereavement issues for DSM-5.

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Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder in the ICD-11.

scientific article published in February 2018

Contributions from two Latin American psychiatric classifications to the development of ICD-11

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Correction: Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11.

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

DMS-IV meets philosophy

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DSM-5 and paraphilic disorders

scientific article published in January 2014

DSM-5 proposals for mood disorders: a cost-benefit analysis

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

DSM-5 proposals for paraphilias: suggestions for reducing false positives related to use of behavioral manifestations

scientific article published in December 2010

DSM-IV and new diagnostic categories: holding the line on proliferation

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

DSM-IV in progress. Changes in substance-related, schizophrenic, and other primarily adult disorders

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

DSM-IV primary care version: an opportunity for general hospital and consultation-liaison psychiatrists?

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DSM-IV: work in progress

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DTREE: An Expert System for Psychiatric Diagnosis

DTREE: Microcomputer-Assisted Teaching of Psychiatric Diagnosis Using a Decision Tree Model

Defining 'mental disorder' in DSM-V. A commentary on: 'What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V' by Stein et al. (2010).

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Definitions of schizophrenia

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Desire for amputation of a limb: paraphilia, psychosis, or a new type of identity disorder

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Developing a science of clinical utility in diagnostic classification systems field study strategies for ICD-11 mental and behavioral disorders

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Development and validation of a new procedure for the diagnostic assessment of personality disorder: the Multidimensional Personality Disorder Rating Scale (MPDRS).

scientific article published in June 2008

Diagnosing psychotic disorders in the emergency department in the context of substance use.

scientific article published on October 2006

Diagnosis and classification of disorders specifically associated with stress: proposals for ICD-11.

scientific article published on October 2013

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edition, and clinical utility

scientific article published in September 2013

Diagnostic criteria as dysfunction indicators: bridging the chasm between the definition of mental disorder and diagnostic criteria for specific disorders.

scientific article published on December 2013

Diagnostic validity and the definition of mental disorder: a program for conceptually advancing psychiatry.

scientific article published in December 2013

Differential Diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder Versus Bipolar Disorder: Current Status and Best Clinical Practices

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Disorders related to sexuality and gender identity in the ICD-11: revising the ICD-10 classification based on current scientific evidence, best clinical practices, and human rights considerations

scientific article published on October 2016

Do mental health professionals use diagnostic classifications the way we think they do? A global survey.

scientific article published in June 2018

Draft diagnostic guidelines for ICD-11 mental and behavioural disorders available for review and comment

scientific article published on June 2016

Evaluation in an inpatient setting of DTREE, a computer-assisted diagnostic assessment procedure

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Evidence of the clinical utility of a prolonged grief disorder diagnosis

Examining the “Neuro-” in Neurodiversity: Lessons from Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey.

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Fallacious reasoning in the argument to eliminate the major depression bereavement exclusion in DSM-5

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Gender and age patterns of prevalence across depressive conditions

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General medical and psychiatric perspectives on somatoform disorders: separated by an uncommon language

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Harmonisation of ICD-11 and DSM-V: opportunities and challenges

scientific article published in November 2009

Hebephilia is not a mental disorder in DSM-IV-TR and should not become one in DSM-5

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Hippocampal Pathology in Clinical High-Risk Patients and the Onset of Schizophrenia

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

How do clinicians actually use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in clinical practice and why we need to know more

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How the DSM Is Used in Clinical Practice

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Including laboratory tests in DSM-V diagnostic criteria

scientific article published in December 2006

Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

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Integrating the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) into clinical practice

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Introducing a Clinical Course-Graphing Scale for DSM-5 Mood Disorders

scientific article published in December 2016

Is Helplessness Still Helpful in Diagnosing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?

scientific article published on January 2016

Issues for DSM-V: DSM-V should include a conceptual issues work group

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Issues for DSM-V: adding problem codes to facilitate assessment of quality of care

scientific article published in January 2009

Issues for DSM-V: unintended consequences of small changes: the case of paraphilias

scientific article published in October 2008

Keeping an eye on clinical utility

scientific article published in June 2005

LOCALIZE: Computer-assisted localization of peripheral nervous system lesions

scientific article published on 01 December 1982

Letter to the editor

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Managing Our Public Selves

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Mental health professionals' perceived clinical utility of the ICD-10 vs. ICD-11 classification of personality disorders

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Moving beyond unexplained medical symptoms in DSM-5: great idea, problematic execution

scientific article published in November 2011

Mutually exclusive versus co-occurring diagnostic categories: the challenge of diagnostic comorbidity

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Nosology of chronic mood disorders

scientific article published on March 1996

Now is the time to retire the term "organic mental disorders"

scientific article published on February 1, 1992

PTSD diagnoses can avoid avoidance as an absolute criterion

scientific article published on 07 October 2014

Paradigm Shifts and the Development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Past Experiences and Future Aspirations

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Paraphilia NOS, nonconsent: not ready for the courtroom

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Performance characteristics and clinical utility of diagnostic criteria proposals in bereaved treatment-seeking patients.

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Placing symptoms in context: the role of contextual criteria in reducing false positives in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnoses.

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Potential implications of the harmful dysfunction analysis for the development of DSM-V and ICD-11.

scientific article published on October 2007

Preserving the clinician-researcher interface in the age of RDoC: the continuing need for DSM-5/ICD-11 characterization of study populations

scientific article published on February 2014

Prevalence and phenomenology of violent ideation and behavior among 200 young people at clinical high-risk for psychosis: an emerging model of violence and psychotic illness

scientific article published on 27 December 2018

Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Prolonged grief disorder: Psychometric validation of criteria proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

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Proposals for Paraphilic Disorders in the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11).

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Proposals for mental disorders specifically associated with stress in the International Classification of Diseases-11.

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

Proposals for new standardized general diagnostic criteria for the secondary headaches

scientific article published on 10 August 2009

Psychiatric comorbidity: is more less?

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Psychiatrists' attitudes toward dissociative disorders diagnoses

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Psychoanalytic patients in the U.S., CANADA, and Australia: I. DSM-III-R disorders, indications, previous treatment, medications, and length of treatment

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Psychotic Disorders

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Psychotic disorder symptom rating scales: Are dichotomous or multi-point scales more clinically useful?-An ICD-11 field study

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

QUICK (QUick Index to Caduceus Knowledge): using the INTERNIST-1/CADUCEUS knowledge base as an electronic textbook of medicine

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Rapid and Accurate Behavioral Health Diagnostic Screening: Initial Validation Study of a Web-Based, Self-Report Tool (the SAGE-SR) (Preprint)

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Rapid and Accurate Behavioral Health Diagnostic Screening: Initial Validation Study of a Web-Based, Self-Report Tool (the SAGE-SR).

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

Recency and intensification of positive symptoms enhance prediction of conversion to syndromal psychosis in clinical high-risk patients

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

Relational processes in the DSM-V revision process: comment on the special section

scientific article published on September 2006

Reorganizing the diagnostic groupings in DSM-V and ICD-11: a cost/benefit analysis

scientific article published in October 2009

Reply to Henningsen et al

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Results of the DSM-IV mood disorders field trial

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Robert Spitzer: A Psychiatrist for the Ages

scientific article published in December 2016

Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V.

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Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses

Schizotypal personality disorder in individuals with the Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome: Frequent co-occurrence without an increased risk for conversion to threshold psychosis

scientific article published on 21 April 2019

Self-reported personality disorder in the children in the community sample: convergent and prospective validity in late adolescence and adulthood

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Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: New tools will lead to more valid classification system

scientific article published on October 11, 2003

Sexual and other axis I diagnoses of 60 males arrested for crimes against children involving the Internet

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Stability of early-phase primary psychotic disorders with concurrent substance use and substance-induced psychosis

scientific article published in February 2007

Stigmatization and receptivity to mental health services among recently bereaved adults

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Telehealth and the Community SMI Population: Reflections on the Disrupter Experience of COVID-19

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

The APA classification of mental disorders: future perspectives

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The Classification of Anxiety and Fear-Related Disorders in the ICD-11.

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The DSM revision process: needing to keep an eye on the empirical ball

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

The DSM series and experience with DSM-IV.

scientific article published in March 2002

The DSM-5 proposal for attenuated psychosis syndrome: a history

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The DSM-IV Text Revision: rationale and potential impact on clinical practice

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The Early Psychosis Screener (EPS): Item development and qualitative validation

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

The Future of the DSM: Implementing a Continuous Improvement Model

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic neuropathic pain

The ICD-11 developmental field study of reliability of diagnoses of high-burden mental disorders: results among adult patients in mental health settings of 13 countries.

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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health Mental Health Surveillance Study: calibration study design and field procedures

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The Opioid Epidemic and Psychiatry: The Time for Action Is Now

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

The ProblematicDSM-5Personality Disorders Proposal: Options for Plan B

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID). I: History, rationale, and description

scientific article published on August 1992

The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID). II. Multisite test-retest reliability

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The WPA-Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry

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The development of the ICD-11 Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines for Mental and Behavioural Disorders

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The importance and limits of harm in identifying mental disorder.

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The importance of developmental field trials in the revision of psychiatric classifications

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

The importance of the main effect even within an interaction model: elimination vs. expansion of the bereavement exclusion in the diagnostic criteria for depression

scientific article published in April 2009

The inclusion of child pornography in the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for pedophilia: conceptual and practical problems

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

The psychosis risk syndrome and its proposed inclusion in the DSM-V: a risk-benefit analysis

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The reliability of three definitions of bizarre delusions

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis

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The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis

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The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis.

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The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion.

scientific article published on 18 December 2012

Toward an empirical classification for the DSM-IV.

scientific article published on August 1991

Transitioning to a dimensional model of personality disorder in DSM 5.1 and beyond

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Treatment outcome for bereavement-excluded depression: results of the study by Corruble et al are not what they seem

scientific article published in August 2011

Use of DSM paraphilia diagnoses in sexually violent predator commitment cases.

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Validation of the NetSCID: an automated web-based adaptive version of the SCID.

scientific article published on 7 November 2015

Validity of the bereavement exclusion to major depression: does the empirical evidence support the proposal to eliminate the exclusion in DSM-5?

scientific article published on February 2012

Weighing the pro's and con's of reclassifying dyspareunia

scientific article published in February 2005

Why We Need to Enhance Suicide Postvention: Evaluating a Survey of Psychiatrists' Behaviors after the Suicide of a Patient

scientific article published on 3 June 2017