Am J Psychiatry 1978; 135:1163-1167
Copyright © 1978 by American Psychiatric Association
Diagnosis of nonpatients in the general community
FS Mendelsohn, G Egri and BP Dohrenwend
Using a sample of 116 subjects drawn from a large metropolitan area, the
authors compared ratings of psychopathology from both structured and
clinical interviews. Although the two types of interviews yielded similar
findings when there was definite psychopathology or definite signs of
health, for some subjects in the middle range between health and sickness,
the two interviews did not yield similar findings. The authors suggest the
need for a new typology to categorize nonpatients in the community who are
in the middle range between frank psychiatric disorder and optimal mental
health.
