An inventory for measuring depression

AT Beck, CH Ward, M Mendelson… - Archives of general …, 1961 - jamanetwork.com
The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of
research and therapy have been pointed out by a number of authors. Pasamanick 12 in a
recent article viewed the low interclinician agreement on diagnosis as an indictment of the
present state of psychiatry and called for" the development of objective, measurable and
verifiable criteria of classification based not on personal or parochial considerations, but on
behavioral and other objectively measurable manifestations." Attempts by other investigators …