Abstract

Psychiatry has been continuously evolving and changing. Given the continued ambiguity of the brain-mind relationship, unresolved questions remain of 1) how can, and perhaps should psychiatry proceed to formulate a viable system of characterizing mental normality and abnormality, and 2) how might such formulation affect the scope and tenor of psychiatric practice? Such questions are not esoteric or merely academic. Rather, in light of ongoing progress in genetics and neurobiology these questions reveal genuine challenges, and form the groundwork upon which a new diagnostic schema for, and definition of psychiatric profession and approach might be constructed [2].

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