Psychiatric illness in a developing country: a clinical study.

Longitudinal clinical studies have provided evidence for years to support the value of classifying psychiatrically ill patients according to well-described syndromes whenever possible. Using such classification as a base, knowledge has been accumulated concerning aetiology, prognosis, and treatment of such diverse disorders as general paresis, schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness, antisocial personality, and others. Our understanding of the essential nature, causes, and treatment of psychiatric disorders is far from complete, and what we do know has been learned more through systematic studies of syndromes than through analyses of intrapsychic and interpersonal processes, however important those may be. In order to treat a psychiatrically ill patient it is at least as important to understand the syndrome from which he suffers as to understand the nature of his personal problems. The physician can attend to the former without neglecting the latter.

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Psychiatric illness in a developing country: a clinical study.

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