The British Journal of Psychiatry (2006) 189: 481-483. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.03825
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Distress and fear disorders: an alternative empirically based taxonomy of the ‘mood’ and ‘anxiety’ disorders{dagger}

Lee Anna Clark, PhD and David Watson, PhD

Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Correspondence: Lee Anna Clark, EIISSH, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407, USA. Email: la-clark{at}uiowa.edu

Declaration of interest None.

{dagger} See pp. 540–546, this issue.

The nosological organisation of DSM–IV and ICD–10 does not capture the empirical structure of the mood and anxiety disorders. Instead, they form a broad group of ‘internalising’ disorders with two subclasses: distress disorders and fear disorders. This empirical structure should form the basis for revised taxonomies in DSM–V and ICD–11.


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