The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnoses: Point-Our psychiatric Diagnoses are Still Unreliable

Affiliations

¹ Dr. Aboraya is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Director of the Young Adults Program at William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, and Director of the World Health Oganization (WHO) SCAN Training and Reference Center at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Ahmed Aboraya. Psychiatry (Edgmont). 2007 Jan.

. 2007 Jan;4(1):22-5.

¹ Dr. Aboraya is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Director of the Young Adults Program at William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, and Director of the World Health Oganization (WHO) SCAN Training and Reference Center at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

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