[The problem of insuring the diagnosis of psycho-organic syndrome. A comparison between medical judgments and psychometric test results (author's transl)].

A comparison was made between diagnostic decisions made by psychiatrists about memory and affective disturbances which are assumed to be typical of Psycho-Organic Syndrome and the results of psychometric evaluations of mental functioning. Some correlations could be demonstrated, especially for memory. However, the classification of individual patients showed a high percentage of different assignments between inferences of psychiatrists and test results; very often the patient was categorized as disturbed by the psychiatrist but not by tests. The claim to replicate the medical diagnosis by means of special testing of mental disorders has been critically discussed and rejected. The main goal of psychometric testing in this field seems to be a differential analysis of the performance of patients which is the basis for goal-oriented training programs.