Marchais P
Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1995 Dec;153(10):716-20; discussion 720-1.
The scientific perspective incites modern psychiatry to base itself on quantification. But numbers have a double function, concrete and abstract, and this affects the meaning of statistics. Neglecting this property of each item and the associative character of the methods (scales, diagnostic criteria) will mean a risk of making the quantitative trend mythic to some degree, and may lead to a superficial, even deformed view of mental pathology.
科学视角促使现代精神病学以量化为基础。但数字具有具体和抽象双重功能，这影响着统计数据的意义。忽视每个项目的这一特性以及方法（量表、诊断标准）的关联性，将意味着在某种程度上有使量化趋势变得神秘化的风险，并可能导致对精神病理学的肤浅甚至扭曲的看法。
