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A Prospective Study of the Influence of Post-Graduate Training in Psychiatry on the Rating of Mental Abnormality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. J. Kelleher*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF

Extract

Although psychiatrists trained in the United States and the British Isles pick out the same areas of psychopathology, American psychiatrists display a tendency, greater than British psychiatrists, to use high ratings of pathology when asked to rate a videotaped clinical interview (Kendell et al., 1971; Sharpe et al., 1974). Within the British Isles Maudsley-trained psychiatrists rated lower than psychiatrists trained at other centres (Copeland et al., 1971).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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