Thus in psychology, as in economics, the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a'reassurance fetish'( Koch 1992, 275 ) for mainstream methodological practice . " According to Tadafumi Kato, since the era of Kraepelin, psychiatrists have been trying to differentiate mental disorders by using clinical interviews.
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Such interviews might include the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale ( CAPS; Blake et al ., 1995 ), Acute Stress Disorder Interview ( ASDI; Bryant, Harvey, Dang, & Sackville, 1998 ), Structured Interview for Disorders of Extreme Stress ( SIDES; Pelcovitz et al ., 1997 ), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders-Revised ( SCID-D; Steinberg, 1994 ), and Brief Interview for Posttraumatic Disorders ( BIPD; Briere, 1998 ).
