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Archives of General Psychiatry

The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for null purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out by a number of authors. Pasamanick12in a recent article viewed null low interclinician agreement on diagnosis as an indictment of null present state of psychiatry and called for the development of objective, measurable and verifiable criteria of classification based not on personal or parochial considerations, but on behavioral and other objectively measurable manifestations. null Attempts by other investigators to subject clinical observations and judgments to objective measurement have resulted in a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales.4,15These have been well summarized in a review article by Lorr11on Rating Scales and Check Lists for null Evaluation of Psychopathology. In null area of psychological testing, a variety of paper-and-pencil tests have been devised for null purpose of measuring specific

An Inventory for Measuring Depression