Psychiatry's main method to prevent mistaken diagnoses of depression doesn't work: study
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
A study in the March edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry senior-authored by Jerome C. Wakefield, a professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University with Mark Schmitz of Temple University and Judith Baer of Rutgers University, empirically challenges the effectiveness of psychiatrists' official diagnostic manual in preventing mistaken, false-positive diagnoses of depression.