School of Clinical Medicine University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Psychiatr Danub. 2012 Sep;24 Suppl 1:S157-60.
There exists a growing argument in favour of a more dimensional approach to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric patients. This encompasses first the idea of a spectrum of symptoms correlating to severity within a single disorder, and secondly, the idea of spectra of different disorders sharing overlapping collections of symptoms. Here we consider the issue in light of specific clinical examples we have observed, which support the idea of a 'mental illness spectrum', both with symptoms within a single disorder, and between different mental disorders.
目前存在一种越来越流行的观点，认为应该采用更具维度的方法来诊断和治疗精神疾病患者。这包括首先是单一障碍中症状严重程度相关的症状谱的概念，其次是不同障碍中共享重叠症状的谱的概念。在这里，我们根据我们观察到的具体临床示例来考虑这个问题，这些示例支持了“精神疾病谱”的概念，包括单一障碍内的症状和不同精神障碍之间的症状。
