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The task of
Psychiatry is to try to classify mental illness into recognizable
categories, to describe the clinical manifestations and epidemiology and to
offer treatment options. The skill is in clinical description and eliciting mood, behavior, intellectual functioning and insight. Treatment is pragmatic and often empirical. |