To have a complete human science in the mental health field it is essential to give adequate attention to both the objective and the subjective data related to people with psychiatric disorders. The tendency in the past has been to ignore or discount one or the other of these data sources. Subjective data are particularly neglected, sometimes considered (only) part of the "art" of medicine...
Psychiatry2010Elizabeth H Flanagan, Larry Davidson, John S Strauss
One improvement from the second to the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was to replace clinicians' subjective interpretations of mental disorders with objective descriptions of signs and symptoms that could be rated reliably across investigators. Along with clinicians' subjective impressions, however, the subjective experiences of the person with the...