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Differentiating Physical from Psychiatric Disorders

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In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association restated the need for careful medical evaluation of psychiatric patients by incorporating physical disorders as one of three diagnostic axes. In its third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III), the diagnostic criteria further require the exclusion of physical causes of mental symptoms: the clinician must determine that the diagnoses of Axis I are “not due to an organic mental disorder.” The impact of these changes is profound: the psychiatrist must consider the effects that an underlying medical disorder may have in producing specific psychiatric symptoms, and he or she must examine and further evaluate patients to rule out such disorders.

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  1. Psychiatric Programs, Florida Hospital, Orlando, Florida, 32803, USA

    Richard C. W. Hall

  2. Michigan Alcohol Program, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA

    Thomas P. Beresford & Frederic C. Blow

  3. Florida Hospital, Orlando, Florida, 32803, USA

    Anne K. Hall

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 15213, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Michael E. Thase M.D.

  2. West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

    Barry A. Edelstein Ph.D.

  3. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Hall, R.C.W., Beresford, T.P., Blow, F.C., Hall, A.K. (1990). Differentiating Physical from Psychiatric Disorders. In: Thase, M.E., Edelstein, B.A., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Outpatient Treatment of Adults. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0894-0_2

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