Does psychometry increase the quality of psychiatric diagnosis?

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Abstract

Norm and illness, stages of illness, forms of illness differ from each other in qualitative, and not quantitative characteristics. Psychometric tools are unable to capture the gestalt of the clinical picture and determine the qualitative changes taking place in it. The article argues for the pseudoscientific basis and unreliability of quantitative measurements of intelligence, personality, statics and dynamics of mental illness.

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Evgeny V. Snedkov

St. Nicholas Psychiatric Hospital; I.I. Mechnikov North-West State Medical University

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Russian Federation, 190121, St. Petersburg, Moika River emb., 126; 190015, St. Petersburg, Kirochnaya str., 41

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