Assigning things to their proper class: taxonomic issues and trends in psychiatry

In this article the author examines some of the taxonomic challenges still facing diagnostic classification in psychiatry, especially those mentioned in Hempel’s important work entitled Fundamentals on Taxonomy. New trends in research and classification are also discussed.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cláudio Eduardo Muller Banzato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental
Series:Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47142002000100011&lng=en&tlng=en