Abstract
Psychiatric diagnoses are confusing; there are no unequivocal physical markers for psychiatric illness. What are symptoms and what is illness have come to be determined by a checklist in the two leading diagnostic manuals, DSM IV TR and ICD-10. This aids consistency and reliability in terminology and appeals to the legal mind but there are a number of issues which are worth further consideration.
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