Discuss the issue of bias in diagnostic system

Discuss the issue of bias in diagnostic system

Different patients with the same syndrome (e.g. schizophrenia) rarely present the same
symptoms. There is a grey area in which the fit between a patient's symptoms and those
forming the syndrome of a diagnostic category is relatively poor. In such cases, it…

fashion, Rachman and de silva (1978) found that the obsessions and compulsions found in
patients with obsessive compulsive disorder are also found in over half the `normal'
population. Such findings make it hard to justify the notion of neat categories. One problem
with these findings is that it is culture…

of diagnosis, and psychiatry has until recently been male dominated meaning that all male
behaviours are the standard by which all behaviours are measured. The result is that `normal'
female behaviours are often seen as signs of illness. For example, the clinical characteristics
for anorexia nervosa include lack of menstrual…