"It's the danger of defining as a psychiatric syndrome a set of symptoms that normal people have."
Equally important is their greater ability to diagnose and treat underlying psychiatric syndromes that do not respond to psychotherapy alone.
His most recent interest is in the psychiatric syndromes of catatonia and of melancholia.
But even if that were not the case, looking for a morphological correlate to a particular psychiatric syndrome is, in most cases, still theoretical.
This article addresses the management of the psychiatric syndrome known as major depressive disorder or often called simply "depression".
Depressed mood is also a primary or associated feature of certain psychiatric syndromes such as clinical depression.
A number of psychiatric syndromes feature depressed mood as a main symptom.
Flashbacks have proven difficult to study and are no longer officially recognized as a psychiatric syndrome.
Interest in the relationship between psychiatric syndromes or symptoms and immune function has been a consistent theme since the beginning of modern medicine.
And today, lycanthropy is a genuine psychiatric syndrome, describing a condition in which patients believe they or other people can, under certain circumstances, turn into wolves.