Abstract

In the article the problem of creation of psychiatric classifications is analyzed. Scientific groundlessness of including in ICD and DSM of various behavioural deviations is discussed. Special emphasis is placed on assessment by it of such diagnoses as “harmful use», gambling, Internet dependence, hording. The conclusion about existence in psychiatric classifications a fake diagnoses is drawn. It becomes perceptible that in psychiatry unlike other medical specialties there is no consensus of scientists concerning a concept of the deviating and diagnostic criteria of psychopathologic symptoms. It is summarized that before agreeing about psychiatric classification, it is necessary to agree about symptoms and their differences from psychological phenomena.

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