The Structure of Common Mental Disorders
Open Access
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 56 (10) , 921-926
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.10.921
Abstract
COMORBIDITY among mental disorders is commonly observed in both clinical and epidemiological samples.1-5 The robustness of this observation is rarely questioned; however, what is at issue is its meaning. Is comorbidity "noise"—nuisance covariance that researchers should eliminate by seeking "pure" cases for their studies—or a "signal"—an indication that current diagnostic systems are lacking in parsimony and are not "carving nature at its joints?"Keywords
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