Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7419.869-a

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Normal rules of critical evaluation were presumably suspended

Roger L Weeks, general practitioner (roger@safescript.org)

2 Deanhill Road, London SW14 7DF

EDITOR—Shorter and Tyrer's conclusion that failure to advance (drug) treatment of anxiety and depression is related to wrong (disease) classification seems to be based on several false premises.1

Inverse relation between number of new drugs patented for mood and anxiety disorders and number of anxiety and depressive diagnoses in DSM revisions

Firstly, precise diagnosis is possible in mental disorders. …