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Gutenberg and the ICD-9 of Mental Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Erik Essen-Möller
Erik Essen-Möller*
Affiliation:
Alsback, S-453 00 Lysekil, Sweden
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Summary

Stimulated by the improvements contained in the ICD-9 of Mental Disorders, the author ventures to revive certain earlier suggestions aimed at its further simplification and homogenization. The major points are: (1) Three separate lists of items, one for each of the variables—Category, Specified Syndrome, and Aetiology, as well as compulsory registration of aetiology even when merely inferred. (2) Threefold diagnoses, built up by one item from each list, but with no catalogue Of preconceived combinations, the manual containing only the lists. (3) No running numbering of diagnoses, but codification by juxtaposition of three independent numerals.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 140 , Issue 5 , May 1982 , pp. 529 - 531
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 

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