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Psychiatric diagnoses in legal systems: an issue of validityGraham W Mellsop
Waikato Clinical School of the University of Auckland, New Zealand
Med Law 30:517-27. 2011..g., DSMIV and ICD10). This paper questions whether the reliance on these classifications systems is appropriate in legal proceedings...
Externalising and emotional categories, diagnostic groups and clinical profilesGraham W Mellsop
Waikato Clinical School, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Int J Ment Health Syst 4:20. 2010..The aim of the study was to examine the distribution of particular psychopathology within and between two proposed over-arching groupings - externalising and emotional disorders - in a clinical sample...
Courts' misplaced confidence in psychiatric diagnosesGraham W Mellsop
Waikato Clinical School of the University of Auckland, New Zealand
Int J Law Psychiatry 34:331-5. 2011..It follows that the Courts' faith in the present categorical classifications (e.g., DSMIV and ICD10) is misplaced and may be ultimately unhelpful to the administration of justice...
