Abstract:EDITORIALAt some point along the bell curve human behavior crosses a threshold of pathology and falls within the boundaries of clinical psychiatry. Yet psychiatric pathology is not a black and white phenomenon. Conditions of the DSM and ICD are not discrete entities. Many symptoms of psychiatric conditions represent qualities of human behavior distributed along a normal bell curve. Individuals at the lower tail of the curve are so different from others and experience such a severe level of adversity and impair… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.