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psychiatric classification

the grouping of mental disorders and other psychological problems into diagnostic categories, as in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (see DSM–IV–TR; DSM–5) and in the International Classification of Diseases. Classification serves the purpose of organizing symptomatic states and abnormal functioning to enhance the treatment of disorders and research aimed at understanding causes. Also called psychiatric nosology.

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paranoid pseudocommunity

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