International Psychiatric Classification: ICD-10 and DSM-IV

摘要: Classification is a systematic arrangement of the world as result human ability to create systems in multitude otherwise chaotic entities order comprehend and master surrounding world, an that probably corresponds structure neural network. In psychiatry, classification old history itself, from Hippocratic school onwards. course last century, psychiatric has become increasingly refined but also subdivided among various schools traditions, ending up with number different major national classifications, such French, German, Russian Anglo-Saxon classifications and, outside Europe, American, Chinese, Indonesian Japanese ones. Moreover, within separate groups used produce their own classification, e.g., for childhood mental disorders.