Neurological Disorders

Challenges in Making Differential Diagnosis of Psychiatric Illness: An Occupational Therapy Perspective

Abstract

Emily Frances Piven

This editorial has offered a commentary about the article, Limitations of Clinical Psychiatric Diagnostic Measurements by Aden Jacob, a research scientist working at the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Radiobiology, Medical Physics Radiotherapy at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom [1]. My first reaction to the article was, “Why would an oncologist write an article about the American Medical Association’s limitations in classification of psychiatric diagnoses? My curiosity led me to Google to search for answers. I found the author’s website. I did not seek this information to belittle or challenge the author’s credentials. I thought that other readers might be curious as well.