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A study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Vol. 131, No. 4) suggests something that most clinicians probably already suspected: While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) may be atheoretical, clinicians are anything but.

Nancy Kim, PhD, who recently completed her doctorate at Yale University, and Woo-kyoung Ahn, PhD, a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, found that even after years of experience with the DSM, clinicians still use their own theories to help them decide whether a patient belongs to a particular diagnostic category.

Specifically, they found that the more central a symptom is to a clinician's theory, the more weight the clinician gives it when deciding whether a hypothetical patient should receive a diagnosis, and the easier it is for the clinician to remember the symptom later