Categories or dimensions? The use of diagnostic models in psychiatry

Psychiatric symptoms are usually described by grouping them into classes, such as 'anxiety disorder', 'mood disorder' or 'schizophrenia'. These classes comprise a series of symptoms of which respectively anxious mood, depressed or manic mood, or psychotic thinking, have a central position. Such a 'classificatory' diagnosis has several drawbacks.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a dimensional description is indeed more valuable than the traditional classificatory system.

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