tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2384137317085622668.post1698137516241954718..comments2018-09-15T09:24:28.360-07:00Comments on Knowledge Model: Can a taxonomy be true?David Flinthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11063189611159076891noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2384137317085622668.post-67315638777540563722009-10-06T02:11:27.301-07:002009-10-06T02:11:27.301-07:00Thanks for that.
I'm basing my position on t...Thanks for that. <br /><br />I'm basing my position on the evidence presented by Prof. Richard Bentall in Madness Explained, my own wider reading and a little personal and family contact with psychiatric services.<br /><br />Bentall's evidence shows that there is very poor agreement on diagnoses between psychiatrists and that diagnoses are not usefully predictive. <br /><br />The idea that there are a number of distinct mental illnesses, analogous to physical illnesses, seems sensible but science often challenges commonsense. In this case I think it's past time to abandon this assumption in favour of a more strictly empirical approach.<br /><br />As someone said "It's necessary to step back in order t6o jump forward."David Flinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11063189611159076891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2384137317085622668.post-61555762653861241732009-09-24T06:41:05.249-07:002009-09-24T06:41:05.249-07:00David,
Psychiatrists struggle with the 'valid...David,<br /><br />Psychiatrists struggle with the 'validity' of their diagnostic categories.<br /><br />The classification systems do give clarity to clinicians to make 'reliable' diagnosis,by bringing together symptoms which occur together more frequently into similar categories.<br /><br />The nature of mental illness is such that there is an overlap of scenarios and a spectrum model of illnesses is also considered.<br /><br />Now from a short term management perspective,it is the current symptoms that determine what treatment I give but it does make sense to understand 'real' diseases to plan my long term management strategies.<br /><br />Practically it is in form of how much does this patient differ from the clssical cases of syndrome A and how much does he differ from syndrome B.This gives clue to what he probably belongs to.Dheeraj Kattulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03948477755733853981noreply@blogger.com