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Richard M. Glass, MD

JAMA. 1983;249(6):782-783.

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There is a time-honored distinction in psychiatry between the misery caused by mental disorders and "common unhappiness."1 Recent developments in psychiatric diagnosis and epidemiology have extended this notion to stress the importance of distinguishing among (1) variations of normal feelings and experiences, (2) symptoms that may occur in a number of disparate conditions, and (3) syndromes that constitute mental disorders. A concern to maintain these distinctions, and as a consequence improve the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis, was central in the development of the current "official" psychiatric diagnostic system, the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III).² In this context, the article by Derogatis et al in this issue of THE JOURNAL (p 751) should be of interest to all physicians. This study of the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among cancer patients was performed by the Psychosocial Collaborative Oncology Group (PSYCOG) and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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