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The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis

In today’s post, Mateo Boberg, Julie Nordgaard and Mads Gram Henriksen (University of Copenhagen) explore how reliable psychiatric diagnoses are in the 21st century.                                                                                                                                   Mads Gram Henriksen Mateo Boberg  Julie Nordgaard What happens if two psychiatrists assess the same patient? Most people, including many clinicians, would probably expect them to reach the same diagnosis. After all, modern psychiatry has spent decades developing operational diagnostic criteria intended to improve diagnostic reliability. But how reliable are psychiatri...