Allen Frances

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Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
- Allen Frances
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There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.
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Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
- Allen Frances
Collection: Tests